1st Edition
Objects in the Archives Modern Material Culture and Heritage in the North
1. Introduction: What Are Our Favourite Things and Why?
Kristján Mímisson and Davíð Ólafsson
Part 1 Objects of Expression: Expressing Objects
2. Probate Records and Private Property in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Iceland
Már Jónsson
3. Wool Socks, Silk Scarfs, Needles and Wood Saws: Material Culture on the Margin of Icelandic Society
Anna Heiða Baldursdóttir
4. Social Circularity of Books and Manuscripts: Sharing Economy and the Material Culture of Text in Nineteenth-Century Iceland
Davíð Ólafsson
5. The Speech of Spindle Whorls: Words on Things and Things in Words
Gavin Lucas
6. The Affect of Relating: The Divergent Manifestations of Things
Kristján Mímisson
7. An Old Manuscript, Leather Shoes, and a Cane: The Role of Material Agency in Literary Criticism
Andri M. Kristjánsson
Part 2 Objects of Gathering: Gathering Objects
8. In Pursuit of Modernity? On Collecting and Aesthetics in Iceland
Anna Lísa Rúnarsdóttir
9. The Icelandic Turf House as Skin: Archive, Anarchy, and Heritage
Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson and Arnar Árnason
10. The ‘Archive’: Things to Consider
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
11. Buried Archives: The Multiple Curators of Waste
Ágústa Edwald Maxwell
12. In the Nude, Without Archive: Recollecting Traces of Holmegaard Glassworks
Tim Flohr Sørensen and Þóra Pétursdóttir
13. Icelandic Cake Fight: History of an Immigrant Recipe
Laurie K. Bertram
14. Collecting Bald Cypress Knees: An Exercise in Symbiotic Interaction
Ewa Domanska
15. Epilogue: Things on a Wall: Potential History
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Biography
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.
