Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR
Recent Submissions
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Review essay: Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison, written by Bruce Lincoln
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Book review: Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies by Oliver Freiberger, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019
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Ibadism and Law in Historical Contexts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Not Sunnis and not Shi’is, the Ibāḍī Muslims of Oman and some areas of North Africa form a “third branch” of Islam, with their own version of the Sharīʿa law. The development of this law displays many interconnections with ... -
Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species. A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior. Decreasing linguistic diversity from the equator towards the ... -
Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Marine food–reliant subsistence systems such as those in the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) were not thought to exist in Europe until the much later Mesolithic. Whether this apparent lag reflects taphonomic biases or ... -
A Palaeolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, Henan, China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-10)The recent identification of cave paintings dated to 42–40 ka BP in Borneo and Sulawesi highlights the antiquity of painted representations in this region. However, no instances of three-dimensional portable art, well ... -
Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Previous studies show that the indigenous people of the southern Cape of South Africa were dramatically impacted by the arrival of European colonists starting _400 years ago and their descendants are today mixed with ... -
Ethnographic Approaches: Contextual religious cosmopolitanisms in Mumbai
(Chapter, 2021)Based on material collected in a research project on the role of religion in the everyday life of selected Mumbai neighborhoods, this chapter begins by discussing the various stages of field research and the factors leading ... -
Sámi indigenous(?) religion(s)(?)—some observations and suggestions concerning term use
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)When writing about politically and culturally sensitive topics, term use is of great relevance. Sámi religion is a case in point. Words organise and create the world around us, and labels have direct consequences on how ... -
Flateretusjerte pilspisser fra Trøndelag og Nordmøre - en typologisk-kronologisk studie fra senneolitikum til førromersk jernalder
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)This thesis examines the bifacial arrowheads that have been found in the two regions of Trøndelag and Nordmøre in Central Norway. The purpose of the study has been to place the arrowheads within a typological and chronological ... -
Notes from the Editor
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Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non-African people. Here, we report hominin and ... -
Better than Orgasm: Sex, Authenticity and Intimacy in the New Women's Movement in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Authenticity and intimacy have become key expectations in contemporary romantic relationships. At the same time, it is taken for granted that sex forms a part of such relationships. This article explores how the relationship ... -
Adelskap forplikter: Norges deltakelse i Unescos skoleforsøk 1953–1959
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Noblesse Oblige: Norway’s Participation in Unesco’s Educational Experimental Program 1953–1959. In 1953, Unesco initiated a teaching experiment project, “Co-ordinated Experimental Activities in Schools of Member States of ... -
Caminoization at Sea: The Fjord Pilgrim route in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Based on official church and public-sector documents and texts related to the Fjord Pilgrim Route, we discuss how a process of Caminoization is expressed in Norway, both in relation to how this new invention relates to the ... -
Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-09)African Middle Stone Age (MSA) populations used pigments, manufactured and wore personal ornaments, made abstract engravings, and produced fully shaped bone tools. However, ongoing research across Africa reveals variability ... -
The Age of Climate Change: Cultural Change Temporalities and Crisis Awareness
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article elaborates the multiple temporalities of climate change discourses and practises and discusses some possible common denominators in the timescales and time structures related to global warming. It first examines ... -
Large mammal exploitation during the c. 14-11 ka Oakhurst techno-complex at Klipdrift Cave, South Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Understanding how hunter-gatherers adapted to the marked environmental changes of the last glacialinterglacial transition (~18 to 11.7 ka cal. BP) remains a key question for archaeologists. South Africa, with its rich and ... -
The gifts of allurement: anti-conversion legislation, gift-giving, and political allegiance in South Asia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The last decade has seen an escalation of various acts of anti-conversion legislation in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and in different states of India. Several scholars comment that the upsurge of anti-conversion legislation can be ...
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