Read more
Situated on an intersection between Material Culture Studies, History and Museum and Archival Studies, this book investigates the material world of the Icelandic population in the late Modern Era.
List of contents
1. Introduction: What Are Our Favourite Things and Why? Part 1 Objects of Expression: Expressing Objects 2. Probate Records and Private Property in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Iceland 3. Wool Socks, Silk Scarfs, Needles and Wood Saws: Material Culture on the Margins of Icelandic Society 4.Social Circularity of Books and Manuscripts: Sharing Economy and the Material Culture of Text in Nineteenth-Century Iceland 5. The Speech of Spindle Whorls: Words on Things and Things in Words 6. The Affect of Relating: The Divergent Manifestations of Things 7. An Old Manuscript, Leather Shoes, and a Cane: The Role of Material Agency in Literary Criticism Part 2 Objects of Gathering: Gathering Objects 8. In Pursuit of Modernity? On Collecting and Aesthetics in Iceland 9. The Icelandic Turf House as Skin: Archive, Anarchy, and Heritage 10. The ‘Archive’: Things to Consider 11. Buried Archives: The Multiple Curators of Waste 12. In Nude, without Archive: Recollecting Traces of Holmegaard Glassworks 13. Icelandic Cake Fight: History of an Immigrant Recipe 14. Collecting Bald Cypress Knees: An Exercise in Symbiotic Interaction 15. Epilogue: Things on a Wall: Potential History
About the author
Kristján Mímisson is an archaeologist and editorial curator at the National Museum of Iceland.
Davið Ólafsson is a historian and associate professor at the University of Iceland.
Summary
Situated on an intersection between Material Culture Studies, History and Museum and Archival Studies, this book investigates the material world of the Icelandic population in the late Modern Era.
