Reading Material Culture in the North Atlantic: traditional wooden boxes as intercultural objects
This article explores intercultural links between the coastal communities of the North Atlantic region by discussing the cultural and social history of Norwegian objects displayed in regional heritage collections in Orkney and Shetland. Using the bentwood box as a way of accessing both tangible and...
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ftuhipublicatio:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/9b96d626-1c7e-41d1-b3c0-c44ea73a544e 2023-05-15T16:48:59+02:00 Reading Material Culture in the North Atlantic: traditional wooden boxes as intercultural objects Reeploeg, Silke 2013-12 application/pdf https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/reading-material-culture-in-the-north-atlantic-traditional-wooden-boxes-as-intercultural-objects(9b96d626-1c7e-41d1-b3c0-c44ea73a544e).html https://doi.org/10.3721/037.004.sp417 https://pureadmin.uhi.ac.uk/ws/files/1101971/Reading_Material_Culture_in_the_North_Atlantic_final.pdf http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3721/037.004.sp417 http://www.eaglehill.us/JONAonline/articles/JONA-Sp-4/16-Reeploeg.shtml eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Reeploeg , S 2013 , ' Reading Material Culture in the North Atlantic: traditional wooden boxes as intercultural objects ' , Journal of the North Atlantic , vol. 4 , 6 , pp. 52-60 . https://doi.org/10.3721/037.004.sp417 material culture intercultural links microhistory North Atlantic article 2013 ftuhipublicatio https://doi.org/10.3721/037.004.sp417 2021-08-09T06:17:15Z This article explores intercultural links between the coastal communities of the North Atlantic region by discussing the cultural and social history of Norwegian objects displayed in regional heritage collections in Orkney and Shetland. Using the bentwood box as a way of accessing both tangible and intangible knowledge, the article focuses on the relationship between Norway and the Northern Isles of Scotland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially trading links. Different types of traditional wooden boxes from Shetland, Orkney, Norway and Iceland are compared using a microhistorical approach, which enables us to consider Norway and Scotland both as individual ¿ethno-territories¿ and as part of continuously changing networks of social and cultural contact across the North Atlantic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland North Atlantic University of the Highlands and Islands: Research Database of UHI Norway Journal of the North Atlantic 2013 sp4 52 |
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This article explores intercultural links between the coastal communities of the North Atlantic region by discussing the cultural and social history of Norwegian objects displayed in regional heritage collections in Orkney and Shetland. Using the bentwood box as a way of accessing both tangible and intangible knowledge, the article focuses on the relationship between Norway and the Northern Isles of Scotland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially trading links. Different types of traditional wooden boxes from Shetland, Orkney, Norway and Iceland are compared using a microhistorical approach, which enables us to consider Norway and Scotland both as individual ¿ethno-territories¿ and as part of continuously changing networks of social and cultural contact across the North Atlantic. |
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Reading Material Culture in the North Atlantic: traditional wooden boxes as intercultural objects |
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Reeploeg , S 2013 , ' Reading Material Culture in the North Atlantic: traditional wooden boxes as intercultural objects ' , Journal of the North Atlantic , vol. 4 , 6 , pp. 52-60 . https://doi.org/10.3721/037.004.sp417 |
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