Abstract
Our interpretations and presentations of the past have an evident direction. They are not neutral or static. Around our work new meanings are woven. Often they are centered around the material, the physical. In this article I will discuss how remains from the past are reformulated and given new significations; how physical objects are seized, becoming part of a stage setting, where certain culturally and temporally situated conceptions of the order of society find expression. The example chosen to demonstrate these questions is the reburial of the two women in the famous Norwegian Oseberg find.
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Ardwill-Nordbladh, E. (2002). Re-Arranging History. In: Hamilakis, Y., Pluciennik, M., Tarlow, S. (eds) Thinking through the Body. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0693-5_11
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