• "Det moderne gjennombrotet" i lærarskulen. Ibsen-lesing hjå Tromsø-seminaristar 

      Fulsås, Narve (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-10)
      I motsetning til den utbreidde oppfatninga om at «det moderne gjennombrotet» i den skandinaviske litteraturen møtte motstand og fiendskap, syner opplagstal at Henrik Ibsens <i>Et dukkehjem</i> (1879), eit av dei sentrale gjennombrotsverka, blei hans største salssuksess, og at boka nådde nye grupper av lesarar. Eit rikt materiale frå lærarutdanninga i Tromsø gjer det mogleg å følgje Ibsen-lesinga der ...
    • The Development of Microhistorical Databases in Norway A Historiography 

      Thorvaldsen, Gunnar; Holden, Lars (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-11)
      Norwegian work on microdata started out with the full count 1801 census and census and vital records from around the capital. Today, most census and ministerial records from 1801 until the mid-20th century have been scanned, transcriptions are being completed, much is encoded and made available via the websites of the Digital National Archives and UiT The Arctic University of Norway. This article ...
    • Die Kontroverse um die Färöer ca. 1524–1536 

      Grohse, Ian Peter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This article examines the efforts of Norway’s council of the realm to rescind the governing offices and trading rights of Hamburg merchants in the Faroes between the mid-1520s and mid-1530s. The limited body of prior research on the subject focuses on the commercial aims of opposing parties, treating their dispute as part of the long-standing conflict over the western Norwegian town of Bergen’s ...
    • Dorset, Norse, or Thule? Technological transfers, marine mammal contamination, and AMS dating of spun yarn and textiles from the Eastern Canadian Arctic 

      Smith, Michele Hayeur; Smith, Kevin P.; Nilsen, Gørill (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-14)
      Yarn and textiles recovered from prehistoric Dorset and Thule culture sites in the Eastern Canadian Arctic have raised questions about the extent and timing of indigenous and Norse interaction in the New World, whether the yarn represents technological transfers between Greenland's Norse settlers and the Dorset, or whether these Indigenous Arctic groups had independent fiber technologies before ...
    • Downscaling Cosmological Landscapes: from Early to Mid-Holocene Rock Art in Northern Norway 

      Damm, Charlotte Brysting; Gjerde, Jan Magne (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
      The rock art of northern Norway is well-known, not least due to the UNESCO World Heritage sites at Alta dating back to c. 5200 cal BC. It is perhaps less well-known that northern Norway also has earlier rock art dating back to c. 9000 cal BC. While the early phase of rock art is dominated by large, natural sized animals such as elk, reindeer, bear and whale in a naturalistic style, the later period ...
    • Dragkamp og balansegang. Frigjøringsmarkeringene i Kirkenes 1954-1994: Et minnepolitisk perspektiv 

      Myklebost, Kari Aga; Markussen, Joakim Aalmen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-07)
      This study traces the development over fifty years of the joint Norwegian–Soviet/Russian commemorations of the Red Army liberation of the eastern part of Finnmark County, Norway, in October 1944. The first commemorative events were held in October 1954 in the town of Kirkenes close to the Norwegian–Soviet border. Throughout the Cold War and into the post-Soviet period, such events have been arranged ...
    • Dømt til å miste sitt liv ved ild og bål. Forfølgelse av trollfolk i Finnmark. 

      Hagen, Rune Blix (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2019)
    • The Earldom of Orkney, the Duchy of Schleswig and the Kalmar Union in 1434 

      Grohse, Ian Peter; Magnussen, Stefan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-02)
      In August 1434, Erik VII, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, confirmed William Sinclair as earl of Orkney, thus ending a decade-long dispute over the hereditary nature of that island fief. Although surviving sources pertaining to Orkney tell us little about Erik VII’s motives, historians have traditionally pointed to circumstances in and around the isles to explain the king’s acknowledgement of ...
    • Ei ny religiøs rørsle tek form 

      Fonneland, Trude A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      13.3.2012 vart Sjamanistisk Forbund godkjent som eige trussamfunn av fylkesmannen i Troms. Godkjenninga innebar oppretting av ein sjamanistisk landsorganisasjon og eit fylkeslag for Tromsø kommune. I søknaden til Fylkesmannen går det fram at forbundet er særleg oppteke av å forvara den samiske og norrøne sjamantradisjonen. Forbundet ynskjer å opna for eigne sjamanistiske seremoniar knytt til dåp, ...
    • Emigrants in the Historical Population Register of Norway 

      Thorvaldsen, Gunnar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-12)
      Both the completed transcription of our emigration protocols, the construction of the national Historical Population Register, and other developments make an article about methods for studying emigration from Norway through the last couple of centuries topical. It starts by discussing the Norwegian and American source material where we can identify the emigrants’ absence from Norway. It in particular ...
    • Endring i samisk og norsk husholdsstruktur: Nord-Troms og Finnmark i perioden 1865 til 1900 

      Jåstad, Hilde Leikny (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      I siste del av 1800-tallet sank andelen eldre som bodde sammen med egne voksne barn i Nord-Troms og Finnmark. Artikkelen diskuterer i et etnisk perspektiv hvilken effekt alder, kjønn, ekteskapelig status og stilling som husholdsoverhode hadde på denne typen samboerskap, og hva som bidro til endring. Analysen viser at nedgangen, uavhengig av etnisk tilknytning, var et resultat av at enker og enkemenn ...
    • Et forsvar for hus som har kommet i knestående 

      Bertelsen, Reidar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-10)
    • Et forsvarsproblem og et mulig sikkerhetsdilemma. Allierte forsterkninger og sikkerhetspolitikk i Nord, 1960–1980 

      Bones, Stian (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-03-22)
      This chapter investigates two phases of Norwegian-American bilateral studies aiming to reinforce the defense of Northern Norway. The inception of this initiative can be traced back to the early 1960s, when Minister of Defense Gudmund Harlem launched an invitation policy based on the new strategic concept of “flexible response”. A major defense problem, seen from the perspective of small state Norway, ...
    • Ett resebrev från Harvard 

      Hansen, Poul Henning Gustaf (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2015-04-22)
      Resebrev från Harvard med fokus på bokhistorisk forskning vid lärosätet, utifrån artikelförfattarens egna erfarenheter som visiting scholar därstädes 2014-2015. Resebrevet åtföljs av en intervju med Robert Darnton, med fokus på the National Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
    • Evolutionary theory on the move: New perspectives on evolution in the cognitive science of religion 

      Czachesz, Istvan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This article discusses the use of evolutionary theory in the cognitive science of religion (CSR), with special attention to critical issues and new developments. In the first part of the article, I will discuss the definition of evolution and describe the Modern Synthesis (or neo-Darwinian theory). In the next part, I will consider various evolutionary perspectives in CSR, including evolutionary ...
    • EXCAVATING WAR AND IDLENESS: THE CASE OF SVÆRHOLT 

      Farstadvoll, Stein; Figenschau, Ingar Olsborg; Olsen, Bjørnar Julius; Witmore, Christopher L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-12)
      For the last decade, the World War II prisoner-of-war camp and battery at Sværholt in northernmost Norway have been objects of archaeological investigation. This article presents the results from excavations and associated studies, including new descriptions of extant structures and found artefacts, comparative osteological analyses of middens, and their implications. Our purpose in presenting these ...
    • Extracted Frontiers: A Call from the North 

      Venovcevs, Anatolijs (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020)
      From microchips to smartphones to electric cars, humanity’s dreams of techno-salvation are built on the crude materiality of extracted metals and minerals. This extraction conveniently avoids large population centres in affluent Western democracies and instead clusters around the world’s social peripheries. This slam poem, first presented as a spoken performance at the 8th Winter School of the ...
    • Family planning knowledge and current use of contraception among the Mru indigenous women in Bangladesh: a multivariate analysis 

      Thorvaldsen, Gunnar; Islam, Rakibul (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Background: This article aims to understand the family planning (FP) knowledge and current use of contraception and its predictors among women of the Mru people – the most underprivileged indigenous community in Bangladesh. Methods: In this study, 374 currently married Mru women were interviewed and selected purposively from three upazilas (administrative subdistricts) of the Bandarban area, where ...
    • Farlige hekser fra Harstad-området 

      Hagen, Rune Blix (Chronicle; Kronikk, 2016-11-11)
      Flere av de kvinnene som ble dømt og brent på bål for alvorlige trolldomsforbrytelser under de brutale hekseprosessene i Øst-Finnmark på 1600-tallet kom fra Harstad og andre steder i Sør-Troms. Mange av disse var tjenestejenter som møtte sin grufulle skjebne i fiskeværene langt mot nordøst. Under såkalt pinlig forhør, altså tortur, innrømmet mange at de hadde lært trolldomskunsten der de kom fra.
    • Farlige Kvinner 

      Hagen, Rune Blix (Chronicle; Kronikk, 2021-04-12)
      For fire hundre år siden, i perioden fra 11. januar til 28. april 1621, avsa tingretten i Vardø dødsdom over ti lokale kystkvinner. Et slikt masseomfang av dødsdom over kvinner var noe helt nytt i Norge, men så gjaldt tiltalen datidens verste form for forbrytelse, nemlig trolldomskriminalitet. Lokale rettsinstanser flere steder i Norge hadde før denne tid avsagt fellende dødsdom i flere ...