Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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: ... -
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 ... -
Wittgensteins Grammatik des Fremdseelischen
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-04-23)WITTGENSTEIN’S GRAMMAR OF OTHER MINDS Throughout his whole work, Wittgenstein was concerned with issues of the human mind, mental or – in the broadest sense – psychological phenomena and concepts. However, it was during ... -
Kritikk av den rene tidsdiskontering
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Artikkelen gir en innføring i og bidrar til å klargjøre debatten om ren tidsdiskontering i kostnad-nytte-analyser. Denne klargjøringen er viktig fordi debatten om ren tidsdiskontering preges av ulik systematikk, ulik ... -
Mind the gap: Academic vocabulary knowledge as a predictor of English grades
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Knowledge of academic English vocabulary is necessary for Norwegian speaking upper secondary students for the completion of their English course and to qualify for university studies. General academic vocabulary occurs in ... -
Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Aurignacian (ca. 43–35 ka) of southwestern Germany is well known for yielding some of the oldest artifacts related to symbolic behaviors, including examples of figurative art, musical instruments, and personal ornaments. ...
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