Marianne Hem Eriksen

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Embodied regulations: Searching for boundaries in the Viking Age, In Ruth Nugent; Ben Jervis; Barbara Hausmair & Ellie Williams (ed.),  Archaeologies of Rules and Regulations: Between text and practice.  Berghahn Books.  ISBN 978-1-78533-765-9.  5.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Don't all mothers love their children? Deposited infants as animate objects in the Scandinavian Iron Age. World archaeology.  ISSN 0043-8243.  49(3), s 338- 356 . doi: 10.1080/00438243.2017.1340189 Full text in Research Archive.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Don’t all mothers love their children? Deposited infants as animate objects in the Scandinavian Iron Age. World archaeology.  ISSN 0043-8243.  49(3), s 338- 356
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Commemorating Dwelling: The Death and Burial of Houses in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. European Journal of Archaeology.  ISSN 1461-9571.  19(3), s 477- 496 . doi: 10.1080/14619571.2016.1186918 Show summary

  Current debates on the ontology of objects and matter have reinvigorated archaeological theoretical discourse and opened a multitude of perspectives on understanding the past, perspectives which have only just begun to be explored in scholarship on Late Iron Age Scandinavia. This article is a critical discussion of the sporadic tradition of covering longhouses and halls with burial mounds in the Iron and Viking ages. After having stood as social markers in the landscape for decades or even centuries, some dwellings were transformed into mortuary monuments — material and mnemonic spaces of the dead. Yet, was it the house or a deceased individual that was being interred and memorialized? Through an exploration of buildings that have been overlain by burial mounds, and by drawing on theoretical debates about social biographies and the material turn, this article illuminates mortuary citations between houses and bodies in Late Iron Age Scandinavia. Ultimately, I question the assumed anthropocentricity of the practice of burying houses. Rather, I suggest that the house was interwoven with the essence of the household and that the transformation of the building was a mortuary citation not necessarily of an individual, but of the entire, entangled social meshwork of the house.

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Den enes død er den annens brød? Om kropp, mat og dødsforestillinger i skandinavisk jernalder. Arr. Idéhistorisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0802-7005.  (2), s 49- 59
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). The powerful ring. Door rings, oath rings, and the sacral place, In Marianne Hem Eriksen; Unn Pedersen; Bernt Rundberget; Irmelin Axelsen & Heidi Lund Berg (ed.),  Viking Worlds. Things, spaces, and movement.  Oxbow Books.  ISBN 9781782977278.  6.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2014). Frihetens port. En reise gjennom fortidens dører, I: Svein Harald Gullbekk (red.),  Ja, vi elsker frihet.  Dreyer Forlag A/S.  ISBN 978-82-8265-093-9.  Ukjent kap.nr..
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2013). Doors to the dead. The power of doorways and thresholds in Viking-age Scandinavia. Archaeological Dialogues.  ISSN 1380-2038.  20(2), s 187- 214 . doi: 10.1017/S1380203813000238
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2011). Hallen og landskapet: monumentalitet, liminalitet og transformasjon. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0332-8937.  (113), s 11- 18

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• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia. Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space. Cambridge University Press.  ISBN 9781108497220.  300 s. Show summary

  Description Contents Resources Courses About the Authors In this book, Marianne Hem Eriksen explores the social organization of Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of domestic architecture, and in particular, the doorway. A highly charged architectural element, the door is not merely a practical, constructional solution. Doors control access, generate movement, and demark boundaries, yet also serve as potent ritual objects. For this study, Eriksen analyzes and interprets the archaeological data of house remains from Viking Age Norway, which are here synthesized for the first time. Using social approaches to architecture, she demonstrates how the domestic space of the Viking household, which could include masters and slaves, wives and mistresses, children and cattle, was not neutral. Quotidian and ritual interactions with, through, and orchestrated by doorways prove to be central to the production of a social world in the Viking Age. Eriksen's book challenges the male-dominated focus of research on the Vikings and expands research questions beyond topics of seaborne warriors, trade, and craft.

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Pedersen, Unn; Rundberget, Bernt; Axelsen, Irmelin & Berg, Heidi Lund (ed.) (2019). Viking Worlds: Things, Spaces and Movement [Paperback edition]. Oxbow Books.  ISBN 9781789252101.  250 s.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Pedersen, Unn; Rundberget, Bernt; Axelsen, Irmelin & Berg, Heidi Lund (ed.) (2015). Viking Worlds. Things, spaces, and movement. Oxbow Books.  ISBN 9781782977278.  250 s.

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• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Imbuing shadow-houses with life -- Late prehistoric Scandinavia, 1600 BCE-1000 CE.
• Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid; Blikstad-Balas, Marte; De Moor, Katrien; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Holmen, Heidi & Aronsen, Jan Magnus (2018). Akademia må satse på undervisningskarrierer. Khrono.no.  ISSN 1894-8995.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Body-objects in domestic space in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Dwelling in place: The longhouse bundling past, present, and future in later prehistoric Scandinavia. Show summary

  Archaeology considers temporality in many ways — as events, as chronological trajectories, as disruption. The three-aisled longhouse survived in Scandinavia through an exceptionally long period of time, from the Bronze Age through the Viking period. Architecture is inextricably caught up in temporality and tempo. Current discourse emphasises that a house is never a finished product, but always a continual process. Each longhouse can be considered as an emergent and dynamic assemblage of materials, animals, things and people. In contrast to the presentation of house plans as still-lifes, a house is thus never finished, but always becoming through time. Moreover, within the house, time is a dimension of space, continual and cyclical, punctuated by events: the rhythm of agriculture, hunting and other recurrent activities, feasts, weddings, childbirths, and deaths. The lifespan or biography of the house is of course inextricably linked with the biographies of the inhabitants. Yet some of these events must have been experienced as ruptures of time — events which necessitated an abandonment of dwelling. And finally, for new generations emerging within the house, the material and spatial environment emerges from the past, on several scales. Each house in the lifespan of this house type is a series of events; a manifestation of long-term social memory and an active choice to keep an archaic spatial ideal; to rebuild, essentially, a similar house again and again. In this paper, I explore dwelling and time in Iron and Viking Age landscapes. How can we bring together the multi-scalar temporal meshwork embedded in one house, in a succession of houses in one place, and in the deep-time building and rebuilding of a particular house type over millennia? While this paper will not provide definite answers, I hope to move the discussion forward by looking at the assembled longhouse through multiple temporal scales.

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Dwelling with the dead in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia: Human-house relationality.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Dørringer, deponeringer og livsløp i jernalder og vikingtid.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Longhouses as temporal assemblages in the Iron and Viking Ages.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Review: Built on Bones. 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death by Brenna Hassett. AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology.  ISSN 2171-6315.  7(2017)
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Slik mislykkes du med doktorgraden (del I). Forskerforum.  ISSN 0800-1715.  5, s 37
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Slik mislykkes du med doktorgraden (del II). Forskerforum.  ISSN 0800-1715.  6
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). The juice of one tomato. On writing PhD dissertations.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). The lives and deaths of houses in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Things as people, people as things: Exploring personhood in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Types, time, and tension: the Scandinavian-style longhouse over the longue durée. Show summary

  This talk explores the trajectory of the Scandinavian-style longhouse over the long term, from the Early Bronze Age through the Viking Age. I will particularly consider the tension between on the one hand focusing on architecture-as-process, creativity, and the latent potential of the material; and on the other on the repetition of form and types over millennia. While typology has recently been characterised as ‘tyranny’, there have simultaneously been calls for a theoretical reengagement with typology as an analytical tool. Stressing that types emerge under specific historical circumstances and come together or are pulled apart through time and through their relations with other parts of larger assemblages, such as technology, ideas, skill, creativity, desire for permanency, etc., specific types can be seen as ‘lines of becoming that continually unfold’ (Fowler 2017). My paper will explore how the development of the longhouse is situated as a field of tension between process and conservatism.

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Within four walls: Personhood and domestic violence in the Viking Age.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Å finne en livsverden i et stolpehull. Nye perspektiver i skandinavisk bosetningsarkeologi. Show summary

  Etter tiår med enorm økning i forvaltningsledede utgravninger, hvor nye former for arkeologisk massemateriale i form av stolpehull, grøfter og kokegroper genereres i store omfang, er det etter mitt syn på tide å vurdere forskningspotensialet disse avtrykkene av levd liv innehar. I dette foredraget vil jeg kritisk diskutere hvor skandinavisk bosetningsarkeologi står i dag, og identifisere noen nøkkelutfordringer for feltet. Jeg vil diskutere pågående arkeologiske diskurser om menneske/hus-relasjoner, om huset som prosess i stedet for produkt, og den kroppsliggjorte og affektive praksisen å bo; og dele noen tanker om hvilket potensiale disse perspektivene har for å bevege skandinavisk bosetningsarkeologi i nye retninger. Hva kan stolpehullene fortelle om fortidens levde liv? Kan vi i større grad snakke om mennesker av kjøtt og blod, deres liv, tanker, og relasjoner til andre sosiale aktører, gjennom å undersøke deres sammenveving med skyggene av hus som engang stod?

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Bleken, Halfdan (2018, 03. april). Gravlagte hus. [Radio].  NRK Ekko.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Bleken, Halfdan (2018, 20. februar). Langhuset - nordmenns bolig gjennom 3000 år. [Radio].  NRK Ekko.
• Bill, Jan; Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Iversen, Frode; Vedeler, Marianne & Aannestad, Hanne Lovise (2017). Ikke la nynazistene stjele vikingtiden. Morgenbladet.  ISSN 0805-3847.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Approaching identity and individuality in Prehistory [chair].
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Archaeology of Dwelling. Houses and households over deep time in Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Assembling houses, house assemblages: How can we study prehistoric buildings from household perspectives?. Show summary

  Through three millennia, from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, people of Scandinavia built and dwelled in a particular architectural form: the three-aisled longhouse. The house created a framework for habitual movement, everyday practice, and social relations between heterogeneous clusters of people, things, and animals. Yet, the evidence of these assemblages is rather limited: we are left with scattered postholes, hearths, and fragmented things. How can the once-vibrant households be reassembled from these fragments? By drawing on social anthropology, architectural philosophy, and archaeology, methodological and epistemological questions of household archaeology will be discussed. The overall aim of the paper is to understand how the heterogeneous households and house assemblages of the deep past can be approached.

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Bodies and body-objects in domestic space: Atmospheric presence in the long Iron Age of Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Can we trace ontology from postholes? A view from Scandinavia’s later prehistory.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Challenges of studying gender in settlements [intro and chair].
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Deposited infants as animate objects in Iron-Age Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Fem strategier for å mislykkes som forsker.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). House assemblages and domestic space through deep time.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). How to fail at research proposals.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Investigating Bronze Age households - A view from Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Kraften av en tomat. Om å skrive doktorgradsavhandling..
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Processing, curating, and fragmenting skulls in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). The longhouse of Iron-Age Scandinavia: Death, commemoration, and infant deposition.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). The processes of engendering: space and materials [intro and chair].
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Haugen, Toril (2017, 25. april). Can houses die? Iron-age to Viking longhouses were burned and buried. [Internett].  www.heritagedaily.com.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Haugen, Toril (2017, 25. april). Iron-age Viking longhouses were burned and buried in funerals. [Internett].  www.phys.org.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Haugen, Toril (2017, 27. januar). Kan hus døy? Jarnalderens langhus blei brende og gravlagde. [Tidsskrift].  Forskningsmagasinet Apollon.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Steenstrup, Henriette & Såheim, Fridtjov (2017, 26. mars). En bit av historien -- Vikingtid. [TV].  TV2.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Archaeology of Dwelling - Introduksjon til et prosjekt.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Don’t all mothers love their children? Deposits of infants and children in the Iron and Viking Ages.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Doorways. Narrative spaces and social mnemonics in the Viking Age.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). How to survive the PhD - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the PLAN.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). På terskelen til hus og hall i yngre jernalder.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Things to do during the PhD – publish articles on the side (Guest blog on patter - blog on academic writing).
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Traces of persistence, persistence of trace: Architecture, memory, and lived space through deep time in Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Brobakke, Marthe Tokle (2016, 11. november). På jakt etter menneskene. Et intervju med Marianne Hem Eriksen. [Tidsskrift].  Nicolay 129 (2):35-39.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Grydeland, Ivar (2016, 25. mai). NRK P2: 'De hverdagslige vikingene' Intervju i Ekko. [Radio].  NRK P2. Show summary

  De hverdagslige vikingene: Studier av vikingtida har gjerne omhandlet vikingtokter, kongemakt og monumentale gravhauger. Marianne Hem Eriksen har valgt en annen vinkel i sin doktorgrad. Hun har sett på hus og hushold som grunnleggende byggesteiner i vikingenes samfunn.

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Grydeland, Ivar (2016, 07. juni). NRK P2: Død og erotikk i vikingtid. Intervju i Ekko. [Radio].  NRK P2 Ekko.
• Gjertsen, Jostein & Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016, 21. februar). NRK P2: Ut i kulturen - privatlivets historie. [Radio].  NRK P2.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). Portals to the Past. An archaeology of doorways, dwellings, and ritual practice in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (Unpublished PhD thesis). Show summary

  The thesis draws on the significant, and largely untapped, potential embedded in house remains from the Late Iron Age (LIA), to illuminate questions of spatial order, social organisation, and ritualisation of the built environment. The dissertation considers a specific, and highly charged, architectural element – the door – and uses the material and metaphorical doors of the period as gateways to explore aspects of mentality of the past. The study increases the understanding of the reciprocal relationship between architecture and social structure, ritualisation, and practice; makes a contribution to the field of cognitive archaeology through combining a mentalité and materiality approach; and emphasises the significance of everyday life in social production. The research methods are integrative, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The work presents new, synthesised data through a catalogue of houses from Late Iron Age Norway, a material that has not previously been compiled. Through social approaches to the buildings, the composition of the household and its connection with domestic space is deliberated. Moreover, the thesis stresses that social stratification is embedded in and euphemised through the way access is ordered in the house corpus.Likewise, the houses and doors’ placement in social and political landscapes indicates that the house is caught up in larger socio-economic and political transformations of its time. Finally, by drawing on a range of archaeological and written sources, the thesis demonstrates that doors constituted ritual instruments and ritual spaces in the LIA. Doors and thresholds, at certain times and in certain contexts, functioned as cultic, judicial, and liminal boundaries. Ultimately, the dissertation underpins the importance of the house in constituting social worlds; demonstrates that the door had agency in facilitating social encounters, allowing or denying access, and communicating privacy and exclusion; and moreover, highlights that by studying an everyday item of the material world, it is possible to generate new insights and interpretations of the past.

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). Ritualization of the Scandinavian-style longhouse, 400-1050CE.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). Seksualitet og død – en evig syklus. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). Slaver, barn og kvinner – husholdet i merovingertiden. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). Viking Foodways: Consumption, Space, and the Household in Norway , c. 550-1050 CE.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Gundersen, Håkon (2015, 18. september). Overskridelser i dørkarmen (i spalten 'Doktoren svarer').  Morgenbladet.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Pedersen, Unn; Rundberget, Bernt; Axelsen, Irmelin & Berg, Heidi Lund (2015). Exploring Viking Worlds, In Marianne Hem Eriksen; Unn Pedersen; Bernt Rundberget; Irmelin Axelsen & Heidi Lund Berg (ed.),  Viking Worlds. Things, spaces, and movement.  Oxbow Books.  ISBN 9781782977278.  Introduction.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Øksdal, Alf Tore (2015, 08. september). Dette forteller dørene om vikingtida. [Internett].  http://forskning.no/historie/2015/09/apner-dorer-til-vikingt.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Øksdal, Alf Tore (2015, 03. september). Åpner dører til vikingtiden. [Internett].  http://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/forskning/aktuelt/.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2014). Mellom praksis og ideologi. Nye blikk på hus og hushold i Norges yngre jernalder.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2014). Re-organisation of household space in the Viking Age/Medieval Period transition in Norway.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2014). Transformation of Everyday Life: Architectural alterations and the religious conversion of Early Medieval Norway.
• Bill, Jan; Bø, Terje; Røvik, Geir; Iversen, Frode; Aase, Sigurd; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Tallaksen, Tommy; Kvalø, Frode; Altrock, Håkan; Ødelund, Arne Petter; Nevestad, Dag; Vaaagland, Lars; Edman, Caroline; Bjercke, Kari & Hjeltnes, Arne (2013, 07. april). Arkeologene: Skatter i havet 2:8. [TV].  NRK1.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2013). Crossing the Boundary: The door as a judicial-cultic arena in the Viking Age?.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2013). Crossing the threshold: The social and ritual significance of doors in Viking-Age Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2013, 01. januar). Innslagene "Raritetskabinettet" i NRK-serien "Arkeologene" (åtte episoder). [TV].  NRK. Show summary

  NRK-serien "Arkeologene" skal sendes i åtte episoder vinter/vår 2013. I hver episode presenteres et funn i spalten "Raritetskabinettet".

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2013). On the Threshold. The social, spatial, and ritual significance of doors in Late Iron Age Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Thomas Hylland; Gansum, Terje; Bill, Jan; Iversen, Frode; Rødsrud, Christian Løchsen; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Wangen, Vivian; Guillou, Jan; Berge, Jan; Eikeland, Rune; Smith, Christian Dokk; Fernstål, Lotta; Aarseth, Bjarte Einar & Hjeltnes, Arne (2013, 28. april). Arkeologene: Vikingen - superhelt og bonde 5:8. [TV].  NRK1.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2012). Borders, Mortuary Practices and Sexualised Rituals in Late Iron Age Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2012). Doors to the Dead in Scandinavian Late Iron Age.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2012). Innledning til et prosjekt: Dører til de døde i vikingtidens Skandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2012). Lift Me Over the Threshold: Liminality, Sexuality and Power in Late Iron Age Scandinavia.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2012). Lift Me Over the Threshold: Presentasjon av et PhD-prosjekt.
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2010). Between the Real and Ideal: Ordering, controlling and utilising space in power negotiations - Hall buildings in Scandinavia, 250-1050 CE.
• Gundersen, Ingar Mørkestøl & Eriksen, Marianne Hem (red.) (2010). På sporet av romersk jernalder -- Artikkelsamling fra Romertidsseminaret på Isegran 23.24. januar 2010. Nicolay skrifter. 3.
• Eriksen, Kristin & Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2009). Jeg fant, jeg fant! Et intervju med Dagfinn Skre. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0332-8937.  (108)
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2008). Kan arkeologi skade de døde, eller: Hvor ble det av Kant?. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0332-8937.  (106)
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Molnes, Henrik (2008). Annerledeshet og identitet : et intervju med Brit Solli. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0332-8937.  (106)
• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Valum, Maria Spitalen (2008). Ikke alt kan en lære av bøker alene. Intervju med Morten Kutschera. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0332-8937.  (107)

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