Pasts Otherwise
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-8818-0546-3 (ISBN)
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History has long shaped our expectations of what the past is and how it should be recalled, written, and displayed. Thus while objects of all ages endure and accumulate around us—often broken and fragmented—we continue to interpret them through historical tropes of completion, succession, and replacement. What if we were to see this indiscriminate persistence and fragmentation not as archaeological defects to be mended by history and historical narration, but as material expressions suggestive of pasts other than history? What might these other pasts look like, and how might we account for them?
In this book, Bjørnar Olsen and Christopher Witmore pursue these questions. Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork at Sværholt—an abandoned fishing hamlet, Wehrmacht artillery battery, and prisoner-of-war camp in Arctic Norway—they explore what difference archaeology can make when working with objects of war routinely saturated by history. Through meticulous material investigations, novel ways of writing, and striking imagery, the authors open glimpses onto the distinctive pasts that forgotten things remember. In attending to what endures above and below the surface, they also confront central challenges of archaeological thought and interpretation, developing new conceptions of presence, patience, and waiting. The result is a bold and compelling vision of what archaeology might yet become.
Bjørnar J. Olsen is Professor of Archaeology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Christopher Witmore is Professor of Archaeology at Texas Tech University, USA.
Acknowledgments
1. An Arctic Land
2. Presence and Patience
3. Surface Encounters
Eidsbukta
The Camp
Eidet
The Hamlet
The Garrison
The Battery
Surface Reflections
4. Below the Surface
Digging Inside the Camp
Four Plywood Tents
Two Barracks
Outdoor Camp Areas
Camp Middens
The Guard Dwellings
Two Positions above the Camp
Underfoot in the Garrison
The Storage House
Buried at the Battery
Storage Building (B5)
The Officers’ Quarter (B10)
The Sundeck
Silent Testimonies
Subsurface Reflections
5. A Historical Interlude
In the glow of scorched earth
6. For Pasts Other than History
Waiting Buildings
The Barn
The Reconstruction House
Two Annexes
Waiting in Readiness
What Pasts do Things Hold on to?
Of zinc buckets and rubbish middens
Pasts Uncompleted
7. Waiting, Still
Photo Credits
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 188 colour photos |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-8818-0546-3 / 9798881805463 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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