Household material culture in 19th-century Iceland: contextualising change in the archaeological record

Maxwell, Ágústa Edwald

doi:10.1080/00794236.2021.1894852

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“…Such records are available from the 18th and 19th century in Iceland (Jónsson, 2012; Baldursdóttir, 2022). Four probates per decade from 1770s to 1900 were examined, one from each value quartile from all available probates from a single county in Iceland (Skagafjarðarsýsla) (see Maxwell, 2021). 2 The data does not show an increase in the amount of clothing that people owned throughout the century as the number of items probated fluctuates widely throughout, although those estates that have the highest value tend to count more items of clothing irrespective of the date of the probate.…”

Section: Heaps Of Clothing—consuming and Disposing Of Clothesmentioning

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Mountains of waste and wasted mountains: clothes, sheep and people in modernising Iceland

Maxwell

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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This paper takes as its starting point two landscapes of waste and connects them through an account of the intensification of production and consumption of textiles in modernising Iceland. Archaeological waste assemblages and historical resources are used to illustrate the consumption and disposal of clothing throughout the 19th century, which is juxtaposed with archaeological and historical studies into sheep rearing, grazing pressures and wool production. The paper argues that the economic notion of waste and the capitalist system from which it originates create landscapes of waste. It stipulates that many solutions which have been forwarded to the waste crisis are still conceived of within this socio-economic system. Historicizing waste creation demonstrates the urgency for alternative answers and the need to resist the movement of materials through the cycle of resource extraction, production, consumption and recycling, and further away from sites of use.

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Section: Heaps Of Clothing—consuming and Disposing Of Clothesmentioning

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Mountains of waste and wasted mountains: clothes, sheep and people in modernising Iceland

Maxwell

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Smoke, Sniff, Chew. Tobacco Consumption in Iceland During the Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries

Lucas,

Jónsson

2024

Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology

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Multiple archives of modernity: Colonialism, capitalism, and identity in Iceland’s transatlantic 19th century

Hicks,

Edwald Maxwell

2024

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Anthropological and archaeological studies of the North Atlantic increasingly contribute to debates around the formation of the colonial Atlantic World. Despite contemporary myths of Iceland as a remote wilderness, the island society was integrated into interregional economies from its ninth-century settlement onward. Here we focus on mapping 19th-century Icelanders’ navigation of colonial networks as they altered their relative position in the Atlantic’s uneven social geographies and emerged from Danish colonial rule. We leverage diverse archives from our parallel interdisciplinary archaeological research projects in Northern Iceland, where shifting rural politics and Icelandic emigration to the settler colonies of Canada and Brazil engendered material and social transformations. We integrate understandings of Iceland’s modernization and nationalism with their ascendance in new colonial networks via material negotiations and strategic engagements with shifting colonial identities.

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Household material culture in 19th-century Iceland: contextualising change in the archaeological record

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Mountains of waste and wasted mountains: clothes, sheep and people in modernising Iceland

Mountains of waste and wasted mountains: clothes, sheep and people in modernising Iceland

Smoke, Sniff, Chew. Tobacco Consumption in Iceland During the Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries

Multiple archives of modernity: Colonialism, capitalism, and identity in Iceland’s transatlantic 19th century

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