- Faculty of Humanities
P.O.Box 1000
90014 University of Oulu
Finland
Tiina Kuokkanen
University of Oulu, Archaeology, Post-Doc
- Historical Archaeology, Gender Archaeology, History of clothing and fashion, Social Behavior Through Clothing, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Archaeology, and 9 moreFuneral Practices, Dress and Personal Adornment (Archaeology), Dress and identity, Contemporary Archaeology, History, Death and Burial (Archaeology), Burial Practices (Archaeology), Gender and identity (Archaeology), and Archaeology of Childhoodedit
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A Guide to Studying the History of Childhood: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Methods This edited volume is a handbook of research methodologies for the history of childhood. The history of childhood is a vibrant, multidisciplinary... more
A Guide to Studying the History of Childhood: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Methods This edited volume is a handbook of research methodologies for the history of childhood. The history of childhood is a vibrant, multidisciplinary field that incorporates a rich variety of methodological approaches developed in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, including archaeology, education, ethnology, literature, and history. The volume presents a collection of chapters that engage a range of different research traditions and employ different research material, conceptual tools, and methods of analysis for the historical study of childhood. In doing so, the volume attends to issues specific to the study of children and childhood, such as those related to research ethics and the theoretical complexities of defining ‘the child’ and ‘childhood’. While the central focus is on the history of childhood in Finland, the volume also includes international and transnational cases, ...
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Varhaismodernissa Ruotsissa kansalaisten pukeutumista ohjattiin ylellisyysasetuksilla, jotka olivat tiukimmillaan 1700-luvulla. Jokaisen tuli pukeutua säätynsä mukaisesti, ylempiään kunnioittaen. Pukujen kankaat ja mallit olivat tiukan... more
Varhaismodernissa Ruotsissa kansalaisten pukeutumista ohjattiin ylellisyysasetuksilla, jotka olivat tiukimmillaan 1700-luvulla. Jokaisen tuli pukeutua säätynsä mukaisesti, ylempiään kunnioittaen. Pukujen kankaat ja mallit olivat tiukan kontrollin alaisia, minkä vuoksi asusteiden merkitys koristautumisessa kohosi aiempaa tärkeämmäksi. Tutkimme tässä artikkelissa, kuinka ylellisyysasetukset ja tuontikiellot vaikuttivat ihmisten pukeutumiseen varhaismodernissa Oulussa. Lähteinä käytämme Oulun Pikisaaren arkeologisten kaivausten esineistöä sekä Oulun kaupungin perukirjoja. Yksi tämän artikkelin keskeisimmistä tarkoituksista onkin esittää, millaista uutta tietoa 1700-luvun pukeutumisesta voidaan saada yhdistämällä kaksi erilaista lähderyhmää. Keskitymme tutkimuksessamme erityisesti pieniin, pukeutumiseen liittyviin metalliesineisiin, kuten nappeihin ja solkiin, joita on löytynyt muihin Oulun kaupunkikaivauksiin verrattuna erityisen runsaasti juuri Pikisaaresta
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The 17th-19th-century burial materials from northern Ostrobothnia are studied in order to consider the value, origin and meaning of textiles especially in child burials. The focus is on the preservation, quality and dyes of burial... more
The 17th-19th-century burial materials from northern Ostrobothnia are studied in order to consider the value, origin and meaning of textiles especially in child burials. The focus is on the preservation, quality and dyes of burial textiles unearthed at the yard of Oulu Cathedral as well as the clothes of the mummified bodies currently under the floors of northern Finnish churches. The materials consist of textiles of local, Swedish and central European origin. The research methods include visual and microscopic analysis, UHPLC-PDA and SEM-EDX analysis. Textiles of the naturally mummified remains of the children are studied through CT scanning images.
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In 2010, we carried out archaeological fieldwork during a rock festival in Seinäjoki, Finland. We had two aims: first, to investigate what material culture tells about how people experience the place where a rock festival is held and... more
In 2010, we carried out archaeological fieldwork during a rock festival in Seinäjoki, Finland. We had two aims: first, to investigate what material culture tells about how people experience the place where a rock festival is held and second, to popularize archaeology. Our methods included test pits, mapping garbage with RTK-GPS and interviews. This article addresses the questions of transience, temporality and place attachment as witnessed by archaeological finds from a festival. Our results emphasize both the long- and short-term changes in the function of this place. In addition, the material culture reveals traces of people’s behaviour that were too mundane to be remembered. It also shows that the places which people choose for their actions are not always those selected by the organizers. Archaeological research at a rock festival was an important arena for meeting people who otherwise might never have come across archaeologists.
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This article discusses street mirrors or ‘gossip mirrors’, in terms of urban social relations and surveillance. Street mirrors were introduced to coastal towns in Sweden and Finland in the 18th and early 19th centuries and may still be... more
This article discusses street mirrors or ‘gossip mirrors’, in terms of urban social relations and surveillance. Street mirrors were introduced to coastal towns in Sweden and Finland in the 18th and early 19th centuries and may still be found in well-preserved towns with historic wooden centres. The authors argue that the introduction of monitoring and spying devices, such as street mirrors, occurred in the 18th century due to increased urban populations and feelings of insecurity caused by greater regional and transnational mobility. Mirrors, in this sense, were one material mechanism in the process of modernization and the development of individuality.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Early Modern History, Nordic Studies, and 15 moreMaterial Culture Studies, Gender, Early Modern Europe, Interaction, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Individualism, Consumption and Material Culture, Material Culture, Gossip, Finland, Modernization theory, Historical Studies, History of Finland, Mirror, and Panopticon
At Oulu Cathedral. Finland, excavations have been conducted during renovations of the church and its yard. As a result more than 300 17thand 18th-century burials were discovered. Many of the deceased were buried in a silk or wool funeral... more
At Oulu Cathedral. Finland, excavations have been conducted during renovations of the church and its yard. As a result more than 300 17thand 18th-century burials were discovered. Many of the deceased were buried in a silk or wool funeral clothes made specifi cally for the burial. The burial customs varied, however, as some of the deceased were buried in their everyday clothes. The best example of this is a man found wearing a plant-fi bre shirt, socks and breeches. Attached to a woolen belt around his hips were a knife and a tinderbox. The clothes have features indicating higher social rank in respect to the other burials: a silk collar in the shirt and copper mixture metal buckles on the knee-level leather straps and on the belt. This article examines the textiles and the buckles of the attire and analyses the social identity of a man in a small northern Swedish town.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Archaeology of Gender, Early Modern History, Textiles, and 15 moreHistory of Costume, History of Textiles, Textile Archaeology, Early Modern Europe, Costume and Identity, Social Archaeology, Gender Archaeology, Ancient Textiles, Archaeology of Identity, European Archaeology, Archaeology of Social status, Archaeology of death and burial, Medieval and Early Modern Archaeology, Death and Burial Archaeology, and Burial Practices Archaeology
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Vanhat teollisuusympäristöt ovat viime vuosina saaneet osakseen huomiota, kun niitä on purettu, muutettu asuinalueiksi ja virkistyskäyttöön mutta myös käytetty sellaisenaan esimerkiksi urbaanin löytöretkeilyn ja taiteellisten projektien... more
Vanhat teollisuusympäristöt ovat viime vuosina saaneet osakseen huomiota, kun niitä on purettu, muutettu asuinalueiksi ja virkistyskäyttöön mutta myös käytetty sellaisenaan esimerkiksi urbaanin löytöretkeilyn ja taiteellisten projektien näyttämöinä. Artikkelissamme käsittelemme teollisuuskohteeseen liittyviä paikan muuttuvia merkityksiä käyttäen esimerkkinä Varjakan saha-aluetta Oulunsalossa. Muun muassa materiaalista kulttuuria, historiallisia lähteitä ja muistitietoaineistoa hyödyntäen pystymme tarkastelemaan Varjakan elinkaarta tehtaiden toiminnan ajalta aina nykypäivään ja tulevaan käyttöön asti. Aineistomme pohjaa Varjakassa tehtyihin koekaivauksiin, kartoitukseen, muistitiedon keruuseen sekä Varjakan materiaalin arkistotutkimukseen. Artikkelissamme nostamme esiin kysymyksiä sahaympäristöjen ja -yhteisöjen rakennettujen tilojen tulevaisuudesta sekä suojeltuina tiloina, erilaisten toimintojen näyttämöinä, paikallisten identiteetin osana että arkeologisina kohteina. Varjakan saha...
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Archaeology of Gender, Early Modern History, Textiles, and 15 moreHistory of Costume, History of Textiles, Textile Archaeology, Early Modern Europe, Costume and Identity, Social Archaeology, Gender Archaeology, Ancient Textiles, Archaeology of Identity, European Archaeology, Archaeology of Social status, Archaeology of death and burial, Medieval and Early Modern Archaeology, Death and Burial Archaeology, and Burial Practices Archaeology
Yläkerta-artikkeli sanomalehti Kalevassa 5.7.2020, s. 30.
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This paper discusses small personal items, buttons, buckles, and pins as a part of gender performance in early modern Oulu. The appearance of a costume is full of meanings; individuals and groups communicate via clothes and personal... more
This paper discusses small personal items, buttons, buckles, and pins as a part of gender performance
in early modern Oulu. The appearance of a costume is full of meanings; individuals and
groups communicate via clothes and personal adornments. One of the divisions of identity, which
we can examine through material remains, is gender. Our aim is to examine how costume both
represents and produces gender identity. Our theoretical baseline is Judith Butler’s performance
theory, where she argues that gender is a performatively constructed act. We will discuss how it
is possible to study this act via archaeological material, concentrating on interpretation. The archaeological
material examined here has been discovered from urban excavations at the NMKY
plot in Oulu, northern Finland. It comprises 19 buttons, 5 buckles, and 22 pins mainly from the
seventeenth century. While the early modern period can be defined in many ways, here it covers
the early years of Oulu town, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The main focus is not to
present completed results, but to show the multiple possibilities of interpretation and the various
connections between gender identity and clothing.
in early modern Oulu. The appearance of a costume is full of meanings; individuals and
groups communicate via clothes and personal adornments. One of the divisions of identity, which
we can examine through material remains, is gender. Our aim is to examine how costume both
represents and produces gender identity. Our theoretical baseline is Judith Butler’s performance
theory, where she argues that gender is a performatively constructed act. We will discuss how it
is possible to study this act via archaeological material, concentrating on interpretation. The archaeological
material examined here has been discovered from urban excavations at the NMKY
plot in Oulu, northern Finland. It comprises 19 buttons, 5 buckles, and 22 pins mainly from the
seventeenth century. While the early modern period can be defined in many ways, here it covers
the early years of Oulu town, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The main focus is not to
present completed results, but to show the multiple possibilities of interpretation and the various
connections between gender identity and clothing.
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In 2010, we carried out archaeological fieldwork during a rock festival in Seinäjoki, Finland. We had two aims: first, to investigate what material culture tells about how people experience the place where a rock festival is held and... more
In 2010, we carried out archaeological fieldwork during a rock festival in Seinäjoki, Finland. We had two aims: first, to investigate what material culture tells about how people experience the place where a rock festival is held and second, to popularize archaeology. Our methods included test pits, mapping garbage with RTK-GPS and interviews. This article addresses the questions of transience, temporality and place attachment as witnessed by archaeological finds from a festival. Our results emphasize both the long- and short-term changes in the function of this place. In addition, the material culture reveals traces of people’s behaviour that were too mundane to be remembered. It also shows that the places which people choose for their actions are not always those selected by the organizers. Archaeological research at a rock festival was an important arena for meeting people who otherwise might never have come across archaeologists.
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This article discusses street mirrors or gossip mirrors in terms of urban social relations and surveillance. These mirrors were introduced to Sweden and Finland during the 18th and early 19th century and have been used in coastal towns of... more
This article discusses street mirrors or gossip mirrors in terms of urban social relations and surveillance. These mirrors were introduced to Sweden and Finland during the 18th and early 19th century and have been used in coastal towns of Finland since the 18th century. Today, they are preserved in coastal towns with old wooden centers. Increasing urban populations and social insecurity caused the need to create monitoring and spying devices, such as street mirrors, since the 18th century. Mirrors were one material mechanism in the modernization process and in the development of contemporary individuality.
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology, Self and Identity, Early Modern History, Urban Anthropology, Urban Planning, and 18 moreIdentity (Culture), Gender, Surveillance Studies, Urban Studies, Interaction, Urbanism, Urban Sociology, Urban And Regional Planning, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Individualism, Surveillance, Consumption and Material Culture, Urban archaeology, Gossip, Sweden, Finland, Mirror, and Panopticon
Sukupuoliko yhdentekevä? Sitten ensimmäisen Suomen arkeologiasta väitelleen naisen, Ella Kivikosken (1901–1990) (Schauman-Lönnqvist 2004: 92), päivien sukupuolten asema tieteen kentällä on muuttunut paljon. Naisten osuus yliopistojen... more
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Sitten ensimmäisen Suomen arkeologiasta väitelleen naisen, Ella Kivikosken (1901–1990) (Schauman-Lönnqvist 2004: 92), päivien sukupuolten asema tieteen kentällä on muuttunut paljon. Naisten osuus yliopistojen opiskelijoista ja ylemmän korkeakoulututkinnon suorittaneista on jatkuvasti noussut,
ja naiset muodostavat heistä jo selvästi enemmistön. Tilastojen valossa vuonna 2008 peräti 62 % kaikista ylemmän korkeakoulututkinnon ja 54 % tohtorintutkinnon suorittaneista
oli naisia (OPM 2009).
Naisten suosimissa humanistisissa tieteissä ero on vielä huomattavampi (Husu 2005a: 24): vuonna 2008 Helsingin yliopiston humanistisessa tiedekunnassa 79 % ylemmän
korkeakoulututkinnon suorittaneista ja 63 % väitelleistä oli naisia (HY 2009). Sama suuntaus on ollut nähtävissä arkeologiassakin.
Esimerkiksi Helsingin yliopistossa naisten osuus ylemmän korkeakoulututkinnon suorittaneista oli 2000-luvulla 69 % (HY
2009). Näiden lukujen perusteella voitaisiin väittää, että yliopistoissa tasa-arvo on jo saavutettu tai jopa pelätä yliopistojen naisvaltaistumista (Husu 2005a: 13).
Sitten ensimmäisen Suomen arkeologiasta väitelleen naisen, Ella Kivikosken (1901–1990) (Schauman-Lönnqvist 2004: 92), päivien sukupuolten asema tieteen kentällä on muuttunut paljon. Naisten osuus yliopistojen opiskelijoista ja ylemmän korkeakoulututkinnon suorittaneista on jatkuvasti noussut,
ja naiset muodostavat heistä jo selvästi enemmistön. Tilastojen valossa vuonna 2008 peräti 62 % kaikista ylemmän korkeakoulututkinnon ja 54 % tohtorintutkinnon suorittaneista
oli naisia (OPM 2009).
Naisten suosimissa humanistisissa tieteissä ero on vielä huomattavampi (Husu 2005a: 24): vuonna 2008 Helsingin yliopiston humanistisessa tiedekunnassa 79 % ylemmän
korkeakoulututkinnon suorittaneista ja 63 % väitelleistä oli naisia (HY 2009). Sama suuntaus on ollut nähtävissä arkeologiassakin.
Esimerkiksi Helsingin yliopistossa naisten osuus ylemmän korkeakoulututkinnon suorittaneista oli 2000-luvulla 69 % (HY
2009). Näiden lukujen perusteella voitaisiin väittää, että yliopistoissa tasa-arvo on jo saavutettu tai jopa pelätä yliopistojen naisvaltaistumista (Husu 2005a: 13).
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Archaeology of Gender, Early Modern History, Textiles, and 17 moreHistory of Costume, History of Textiles, Archaeological Method & Theory, Textile Archaeology, Early Modern Europe, Costume and Identity, Social Archaeology, Death and Burial (Archaeology), Dress and Personal Adornment (Archaeology), Gender Archaeology, Ancient Textiles, Gender and identity (Archaeology), Archaeology of Identity, European Archaeology, Archaeology of Social status, Archaeology of death and burial, and Medieval and Early Modern Archaeology
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Varhaismodernissakin yhteisössä lapset ja nuoret muodostivat merkittävän osan väestöstä, mutta heitä on haastavaa tavoittaa kirjallisesta materiaalista, koska se on pääasiallisesti aikuisten tuottamaa. Samoin naiset ovat miehiä... more
Varhaismodernissakin yhteisössä lapset ja nuoret muodostivat merkittävän osan väestöstä, mutta heitä on haastavaa tavoittaa kirjallisesta materiaalista, koska se on pääasiallisesti aikuisten tuottamaa.
Samoin naiset ovat miehiä haastavampia tavoittaa kirjallisista lähteistä. Tämä esitys käsittelee perukirjoja lapsuuden arkeologian lähteenä. Esimerkkiaineistona käytetään 1790-luvulla Oulussa
tehtyjä alle 30-vuotiaiden naisten perukirjoja, joita on kuusi kappaletta. Niin sukupuoli kuin lapsuus ja nuoruuskin ovat biologisen elementtinsä lisäksi sekä sosiaalisesti että kulttuurisesti rakentuvia
identiteetin osia. Ne ovat myös historiallisesti muuttuvia; mitä juuri nämä perukirjat kertovat nuorista naisista varhaismodernissa Oulussa?
Samoin naiset ovat miehiä haastavampia tavoittaa kirjallisista lähteistä. Tämä esitys käsittelee perukirjoja lapsuuden arkeologian lähteenä. Esimerkkiaineistona käytetään 1790-luvulla Oulussa
tehtyjä alle 30-vuotiaiden naisten perukirjoja, joita on kuusi kappaletta. Niin sukupuoli kuin lapsuus ja nuoruuskin ovat biologisen elementtinsä lisäksi sekä sosiaalisesti että kulttuurisesti rakentuvia
identiteetin osia. Ne ovat myös historiallisesti muuttuvia; mitä juuri nämä perukirjat kertovat nuorista naisista varhaismodernissa Oulussa?
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According to previous studies, from the 18th century Finnish probate inventories, it is possible to study for example clothing, because clothes were valuable property and therefore documented precisely. We know also, that if we study all... more
According to previous studies, from the 18th century Finnish probate inventories, it is possible to study for example clothing, because clothes were valuable property and therefore documented precisely. We know also, that if we study all women, from all age groups, we can use probate
inventories as a source material to study textile handiwork women practiced at home. But, can we do this, if we focus to the youngest women to whom the probate inventories were done? The focus of this presentation are the probate inventories as a source material, in studying domestic textile handiwork of young women. In addition, this paper discusses clothing documented to the studied inventories.
inventories as a source material to study textile handiwork women practiced at home. But, can we do this, if we focus to the youngest women to whom the probate inventories were done? The focus of this presentation are the probate inventories as a source material, in studying domestic textile handiwork of young women. In addition, this paper discusses clothing documented to the studied inventories.
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In numbers, most or the workers at Varjakka sawmill (Oulunsalo, Finland) were men. When studying work in Varjakka, they also are the group of people, which is most presented in research literature. Despite of this, also many women,... more
In numbers, most or the workers at Varjakka sawmill (Oulunsalo, Finland) were men. When studying work in Varjakka, they also are the group of people, which is most presented in research literature. Despite of this, also many women, children and adolescents worked there. In this case study the focus is on children, especially girls. What kind of work they at sawmill conducted and in what kind of physical environment? This presentation is based on an article manuscript (original in Finnish) Tiina Kuokkanen and Noora Hemminki: “Varjakka sawmill as work environment of children and adolescents”.
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Paper presented in Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress 2017.
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Paper presented at the Oulu-opisto 14.1.2015.
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Paper presented at the 5th Pasold research fund conference "Innovation before the Modern – Cloth and Clothing in the Early Modern World" held 27–29th of September 2012 at the University of Stockholm.
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Paper presented at the PREMODS network meeting held 25-26th of September 2014 at the University of Uppsala.