Sami Raninen
University of Turku, Department of Archaeology, Graduate Student
- Archaeology, Gender Studies, Viking Age Archaeology, History, Cultural History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and 44 moreEarly Medieval Archaeology, History of Archaeology, Philosophy of Archaeology, Old Rus', Vikings in the East, Viking Age Scandinavia, Viking Studies, Varangians, Birka, Material Culture Studies, Kievan Rus', the Nevolino culture, Viking Age, Vikings, Medieval Scandinavia, Viking Age Weapons, Old Norse Religion, Novgorod the Great, Roman Iron Age, Urbanisation In Viking Age Scandinavia and Rus, Sámi Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Viking Glass Beads, Glass Beads, Carolingian Studies, Merovingian period, Anglo-Saxon archaeology, Medieval Germany, Silk Road Studies, Medieval Poland, Baltic archaeology, Old Prussians, Slavic Archaeology, Early Medieval Period, Vendel period, Khazar archaeology and history, Anglo-Saxon Studies, Medieval rural settlement, Byzantine Archaeology, Byzantine Studies, Corded Ware Culture, and Educationedit
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The article is an attempt to characterize the concept of personhood as seen in the existence of collective cremation cemeteries under level ground in Iron Age Finland. It is argued that the tradition of collective cremations was fused... more
The article is an attempt to characterize the concept of personhood as seen in the existence of collective cremation cemeteries under level ground in Iron Age Finland. It is argued that the tradition of collective cremations was fused with that of individualistic weapon burials in the level ground cremation cemeteries of the 6th and 7th centuries. This resulted in a kind of bi-ritualism, where collective and individual cremation depositions were made in the same cemeteries side by side. This is interpreted as an indication of dualism in the conceptions of soul and ancestral existence, possibly related to status-and gender-related differentiation among the buried individuals. The male elite seems to have wished to express their status through individual burial rites. This tension seems to disappear during the 9th century, when the collective burial practice prevails. The next individual burials in the cemeteries are from the end of the Viking Age when occasional inhumation graves were dug in the cemetery. On püütud iseloomustada isiksuse kontseptsiooni, nagu see kajastub Soome rauaaja madala kivistikuga ja kollektiivsete põletusmatustega kalmeväljades. On väidetud, et 6. ja 7. sajandi kivivarekalmetes on kollektiivse iseloomuga põletatult matmise traditsioon segunenud indi-vidualistliku relvastatult matmisega. Selle tulemuseks oli teatavat tüüpi kaksikrituaalsus, mille puhul pandi ühte ja samasse kalmistusse samaaegselt nii kollektiivseid kui individuaalseid põletusmatuseid. Artiklis on seda tõlgendatud kui märki hingekujutelmades ja esivanematega seotud uskumustes kehtivast dualismist, mis seostus võib-olla maetute diferentseeritusega staatuse ja soo järgi. Individualistlike matuserituaalide kaudu tahtsid oma staatust väljendada eliidi meessoost esindajad. Seesugune pingestatus näis kaduvat 9. sajandi jooksul, mil valitses kollektiivne matmine. Individuaalsed matused tekkisid taas viikingiaja lõpul, kui kalmistu-tesse maeti üksikuid laibamatuseid.
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Información del artículo Designing classification: an overview from the illuminating History Proyect.
In: Rituals and Relations. Studies on the Society and Material Culture of the Baltic Finns. Edited by Sari Mäntylä. The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, humaniora 336. (2005).
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In: Fibula, Fabula, Fact: The Viking Age in Finland. Edited by Joonas Ahola & Frog with Clive Tolley. Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki. (2014).