Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-05)Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological, geochronological, geomorphological, and paleoenvironmental ... -
Vil man ha forskning i museene? Museumspolitiske mål og hindringer for forskningsarbeid
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Norwegian museum policy states that research is an important part of museum activities. Numerous structural and more employee-directed measures have been implemented, nationally and locally in the museums, to further ... -
A Culinary Quest : Peruvian Women Entrepreneurs in Southern California Negotiating Gender, Home, and Belonging
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-05-21)A complex context of reception shapes culinary business ownership among Peruvian immigrants in Southern California. In the United States, Latinxs are often negatively portrayed as undocumented, poor, and criminals, and ... -
Samanheng og samanfall : Ein studie av forholdet mellom opplæringsmål og utvikling av skriftlege ferdigheiter
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-05-27)One distinctive feature of the Norwegian language situation is the existence of, and the compulsory teaching in the two mutually intelligible written varieties of Norwegian, Bokmål and Nynorsk. The main goal of this thesis, ... -
Being Persian in Late Mamluk Egypt: The Construction and Significance of Persian Ethnic Identity in the Salons of Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906–922/1501–1516)
(Journal article, 2020)People identified as Persians constituted one of the most prominent groups of nonlocal inhabitants in Mamluk Egypt, and earlier scholarship has paid considerable attention to Egyptian-Persian relations. Nevertheless, the ... -
Håkon og Skule 1217–1240
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Artikkelen diskuterer forholdet mellom Håkon Håkonsson og hans rival Skule fra valget av Håkon i 1217 til Skules opprør og fall 1239–40. Håkons saga, skrevet i 1260-årene, er nesten vår eneste kilde til dette. Selv om den ... -
Private messages from the field: Confessions on digital ethnography and its discomforts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This special issue collects the confessions of five digital ethnographers laying bare their methodological failures, disciplinary posturing, and ethical dilemmas. The articles are meant to serve as a counseling stations ... -
Three lies of digital ethnography
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The relative novelty of digital ethnography as a research methodology, along with the challenges that it moves to classical understandings of fieldwork, participation and representation, results in a repertoire of professional ... -
The cryptic case of Otomys sloggetti (Sloggett’s vlei rat): Interpreting murid molar morphology in the fossil record
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Vlei rats (Family: Muridae; Subfamily: Otomyinae) have a widespread distribution in southern Africa. They are favoured prey of barn and spotted eagle owls, and frequently become associated with archaeological deposits when ... -
Les tentures fleuries peintes à Baouît
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In the monastery of Apa Apollô at Bawit, paintings imitating textiles decorate the walls in many of the chapels excavated by Jean Clédat (1901-1902, 1903-1905) and Jean Maspero (1913). These textile imitations, situated ... -
Hidden in plain sight: A microanalytical study of a Middle Stone Age ochre piece trapped inside a micromorphological block sample
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A complete Middle Stone Age ochre piece was unintentionally collected and fully preserved within a micromorphological block sample intended to characterise a 74 ± 3 ka occupation horizon at Blombos Cave, South Africa. ... -
«The mausoleum, the wax house»: Dødspoetikk og bie-topos i Sylvia Plaths bie-dikt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Artikkelen nærleser den såkalte bie-sekvensen i Sylvia Plaths diktsamling Ariel (1965) bestående av dikt om bier og birøkt («The Bee Meeting», «The Arrival of the Bee Box», «Stings», og «Wintering»). Jeg vil vise hvordan ... -
Perceiving Matter. Visual, Material and Sensual Communication – an introduction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)A consistent line of thinking about matter, colour and form continued into the Middle Ages from the Classical period. Our present views on the Classical and medieval works of art are coloured by how they have been perceived ... -
Born-Digital Publications: Public Databases, Hypertext Journals, and Companion Websites as Digital Humanities Tools
(Journal article, 2020)Although we tend to think about digital humanities as the application of quantitative methods to digitized material, other digital tools can impact scholarship considerably. I introduce three types of born-digital publications: ... -
Appealing to Your Better Judgement: A Call for Database Criticism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Engagement with public databases has become a leading way for scholars, artists, and readers alike to encounter works of electronic literature as well as get an overview of the field. Although acknowledged as an important ... -
Geoarchaeological investigation of occupation deposits in Blombos Cave in South Africa indicate changes in site use and settlement dynamics in the southern Cape during MIS 5b-4
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The archaeological assemblage recovered from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) levels in Blombos Cave, South Africa, is central to our understanding of the development of early modern humans. Here, we demonstrate that the cultural ... -
Compilation as “heutige Bildung”: Philological and Philosophical Perspectives on Compilation in Friedrich Schlegel’s Lessings Gedanken und Meinungen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article considers the role of compilation in the work of Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), with particular emphasis on his anthology Lessings Gedanken und Meinungen (1803–1804). While compilation was often derided in ... -
Russian Civilizationism at the Turn of a New Decade: The Case of Academia
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Texture, Colour and Surface Appearance of the Cividale Stuccoes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article discusses the material and aesthetic qualities of the female stucco saints in the Tempietto Longobardo at Cividale del Friuli (c. AD 750). The stuccoes combine two artistic and technical traditions: marble ... -
Japanske låneord i norsk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Denne artikkelen tar for seg forekomsten av japanske låneord i norsk. For å belyse problemstillingen er tre analoge ordbøker over låneord og fremmedord i norsk, fra ett og samme forlag, benyttet ved tre ulike tidspunkt ...
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