Immonen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 67394 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Immonen |
| APELLIDO | Immonen |
| FIRMA | IMMONEN |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7616-500X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500
The politics of heritage education
Heritage education is present in many educational institutions and their study programmes but not often directly addressed in national curriculum guidelines. The guideline documents of Estonia, Finland, and Sweden for compulsory basic education (children from 7 to 16 years old) are a case in point, and this article analyses how heritage is defined, in which contexts it appears, and what kind of effects it has in these educational policies. To acc…
Urban Heritage, and the Theory of Fragmentation
Despite the shift from object- to landscape-based approaches in urban heritage management, the analysis of heritage as objects is still viable, as the current archaeological theories of material culture do not see objects in the same manner as the object-based approach. To reveal the broader significance of urban archaeology for the cityscape, the relationship between the discipline and urban space is analyzed in the framework of fragmentation th…
Heritage as a gift of Public space
Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland
Nude heritage selfies as a visual practice
In the mid-2010s, the media reported a series of disturbances at heritage sites caused by visitors taking nude self-photographs or selfies. In this article, nude selfies are analysed as a visual practice, and it is discussed what they reveal about visually structured tourist encounters with heritage sites. It is argued that nude heritage selfies continue the practice of old European art visually linking nudity, heritage, and tourism. In fact, man…
Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter
This article provides an introduction to medieval treasuries, or collections of objects in churches, in Northern Europe. Particularly cathedral treasuries offer a significant material assemblage from the Middle Ages, and consequently an essential perspective on the complex relationships between objects, matter, and religious practice. We discuss the definitions of the “North,” and “treasury,” and as a case study, describe the history and research…
Bildung as the process of cultural heritage
In this article, I describe the 19th-century Finnish philosopher Johan Vilhelm Snellman’s ideas about Bildung, and show how this concept provided another basis for cultural heritage, which diverges from how the term was used after the 1960s and 1970s. Bildung refers to the historically unfolding process in which humanity, nations, and individuals, through their own efforts, become what they are. It is the movement towards self-realisation. As par…
New tools for studying Finnish archaeology and Uralic languages
Between 2018 and 2020 the Kipot ja kielet [Beakers and Speakers] project (KiKi) collected a typological database of archaeological artefacts in Finland and a typological linguistic database of Uralic languages. Both datasets will be accessible through a public online interface (URHIA) from 2021. The data will help integrate Finnish- and Uralic-speaking areas into global perspectives on human history
Something Distinct, or Business as Usual? Interpreting the Plan of the Late Medieval Bridgettine Monastery in Naantali, Finland
This article analyses modern interpretations of the medieval plan of the Bridgettine Monastery of Naantali, Finland. Instead of seeing the distinct spatial organisation as deviation from the Bridgettine norm, we consider it as an expression of a medieval process, by which monastic principles were re-conceptualised in order to be realised in material form. This perspective builds on the shift in thinking that has taken place in the study of mediev…
Pyhän tähteet
Arvio väitöskirjasta Sofia Lahti, Silver arms and silk heads: Medieval reliquaries in the Nordic countries (Åbo Akademi University Press), 2019
Radiohiiliajoituksen mahdollisuuksia ja ongelmia keskiaikaisten puuveistosten ajoituksessa
Radiohiiliajoitusta ei ole juuri käytetty keskiaikaisten veistosten tai alttarikaappien ajoittamiseen Suomessa. Luonnontieteellisten menetelmien hyödyntäminen kuvanveiston tutkimuksessa avaa kuitenkin uusia näköaloja. Samaan aikaan on tärkeä muistaa, että taidehistoriallisten objektien materiaalisen kokonaisuuden ymmärtäminen edellyttääradiohiiliajoitustulosten yhdistämistä ja vertailua perinteisin taidehistoriallisin menetelmin tuotettuihin ajoi…
From passion to bereavement
The Finnish diplomat Harri Holma and his wife Alli, along with their son, art historian Klaus, created a private collection of 554 items. They acquired antique pieces and works of art in Berlin, Paris and Rome from the 1920s to the 1950s. The collection consists of Western and Southern European paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles and tableware, dating from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Initially the objects were acquired by the…
The life of wood in North-eastern Europe in AD 1100–1600
This project develops theoretical as well as methodological tools for the study of ancient wood, focusing on wood-use in North-eastern Europe within the period AD 1100–1600. The authors approach wood within the framework of object biographies and link the study of wooden artefacts with broader archaeological understandings of formation processes and environmental reconstruction
Metal detecting as a social formation
The hobby of metal detecting has mostly been examined from the perspectives of archaeology and heritage administration. Although fulfilling archaeological needs, such an approach neglects the social analysis of this pastime. In 2019, we conducted a survey of metal detector enthusiasts and heritage professionals in Finland, the results of which are compared with those of a corresponding survey carried out in 2014. Within five years, metal detectin…
Teaching Archaeological Heritage Management. Towards a Change in Paradigms
The concept of archaeological heritage management (AHM) has been key to wider archaeological research and preservation agendas for some decades. Many universities and other education providers now offer what is best termed heritage management education (HME) in various forms. The emphasis is commonly on archaeological aspects of heritage in a broad sense and different terms are often interchangeable in practice. In an innovative working-conferenc…
From Bones to Sacred Artefact
The cult of saints and the subsequent interest in relics constituted one of the essential characteristics of medieval Western Christianity. In particular, relics and reliquaries are prime examples of the importance of materiality in devotion. In the present article we analyse one of the medieval skull relics of Turku Cathedral and its material characteristics in detail. Previous examinations undertaken in the 1920s and 1940s produced two theories…
Medieval Desire to Consume and Its Powerhouses
The question of the character of the premodern resonates throughout all archaeological research. The issue gives vibrancy to the conceptual framework in which traces of the past are examined, while
Quidditching’ and the Emergence of New Heritage Identities — Amateur Metal Detecting in Finland
This article analyses the historical formation of the metal-detectorist community in Finland, and, at the same time, shows that its homogeneity is somewhat illusory. The study is based on a questionnaire survey of amateur metal detectorists and professional Finnish archaeologists, and their attitudes towards each other. We combine a statistical examination of the structure and attitudes of the amateur detectorist community with an analysis of the…
Fondling on the kitchen table - Artefacts, sexualities and performative metaphors from the 15th to the 17th centuries
The term 'sexual metaphor' consists of two elements: sexuality and metaphor. Both individually and together provide a perspective on material culture, and particularly on the current discussions on the relations between humans, things and materiality. Using such relatively common objects as cock taps, bollock daggers and redware pipkins as examples, the article examines sexual metaphors in material culture from the 15th to the 17th centuries. Sex…
Connecting Things through the Visual Arts
Medieval archaeology as a discipline is usually defined in relation to written sources and history, while other kinds of sources and scholarly traditions studying the same period are overlooked. With a small group of 14th-century crescent moon pendants of bronze from Finland as its focal point, the present article analyses the way in which archaeology connects with the visual arts and the discipline specialized in studying them, art history. Inst…
Photographic Bodies and Biographical Narratives
Although the new approaches of biographical writing and current theories on photography have similar tendencies, there are also frictions between them. They stem from the commitment of biography to concentrate on a certain person and his or her life course, in my case the life of the State Archaeologist Juhani Rinne (1872–1950). I present photographs of Rinne as a case study and focus on the tensions between biographical narrativity and photograp…
Heritageisation as a material process
The old episcopal crosier of Turku Cathedral is a typical heritage item: a clearly identifiable object pregnant with traditions, including both medievalism and nationalism. A subject of the heritageisation process, it has become a familiar and discursive part of the past. The damaged and worn state of the crosier, which has lost its hook of silver, is a necessary indicator of the passage of time traced back to the Middle Ages. In 1931, the crosie…
Finger of a saint, thumb of a priest
The relics of Turku Cathedral are remains belonging to the bodies of holy persons, different from ours, even today, although the cathedral is the see for the archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, and relics are not on public display. Among the relics of the cathedral, there is a fragment of a radius, which according to its authentica, belongs to St Henry. Relics and reliquaries were in the core of medieval piety, and the cult …
Michael Shanks
Metal detecting as a social formation
The hobby of metal detecting has mostly been examined from the perspectives of archaeology and heritage administration. Although fulfilling archaeological needs, such an approach neglects the social analysis of this pastime. In 2019, we conducted a survey of metal detector enthusiasts and heritage professionals in Finland, the results of which are compared with those of a corresponding survey carried out in 2014. Within five years, metal detectin…
Farming and Brass Kettles as Forms of Colonial Encounter
Farming and Brass Kettles as Forms of Colonial Encounter:New Sweden from an Archaeological Perspective Visa Immonen The History of New Sweden and its Margins Historians have spilled much ink regarding the seventeenth-century colony of New Sweden in the Delaware Valley, an area consisting of north Delaware, southwest New Jersey, and southeast Pennsylvania. A number of accounts have been written concerning the colony's history, Amandus Johnson's (1…
Quidditching’ and the Emergence of New Heritage Identities — Amateur Metal Detecting in Finland
This article analyses the historical formation of the metal-detectorist community in Finland, and, at the same time, shows that its homogeneity is somewhat illusory. The study is based on a questionnaire survey of amateur metal detectorists and professional Finnish archaeologists, and their attitudes towards each other. We combine a statistical examination of the structure and attitudes of the amateur detectorist community with an analysis of the…
Urban Heritage, and the Theory of Fragmentation
Despite the shift from object- to landscape-based approaches in urban heritage management, the analysis of heritage as objects is still viable, as the current archaeological theories of material culture do not see objects in the same manner as the object-based approach. To reveal the broader significance of urban archaeology for the cityscape, the relationship between the discipline and urban space is analyzed in the framework of fragmentation th…
From Bones to Sacred Artefact
The cult of saints and the subsequent interest in relics constituted one of the essential characteristics of medieval Western Christianity. In particular, relics and reliquaries are prime examples of the importance of materiality in devotion. In the present article we analyse one of the medieval skull relics of Turku Cathedral and its material characteristics in detail. Previous examinations undertaken in the 1920s and 1940s produced two theories…
Heritageisation as a material process
The old episcopal crosier of Turku Cathedral is a typical heritage item: a clearly identifiable object pregnant with traditions, including both medievalism and nationalism. A subject of the heritageisation process, it has become a familiar and discursive part of the past. The damaged and worn state of the crosier, which has lost its hook of silver, is a necessary indicator of the passage of time traced back to the Middle Ages. In 1931, the crosie…
Functional Ladles or Ceremonial Cutlery? A Cultural Biography of Prehistoric Wooden Spoons from Finland
Five wooden spoons dated to the Sub-Neolithic and Bronze Age are known from Finland. Four of them have an animal head carved onto their handles. The decoration has usually been seen as a sign of the spoons' totemistic and ceremonial use. Three of the spoons are stray finds, one comes from a possible cult site and one from a dwelling site. Two spoons are made of Siberian pine, which makes them objects of trade exchange; the westernmost natural occ…
The politics of heritage education
Heritage education is present in many educational institutions and their study programmes but not often directly addressed in national curriculum guidelines. The guideline documents of Estonia, Finland, and Sweden for compulsory basic education (children from 7 to 16 years old) are a case in point, and this article analyses how heritage is defined, in which contexts it appears, and what kind of effects it has in these educational policies. To acc…
Defining a culture
This paper explores the influence of merchants operating out of Germany in medieval Turku by comparing the evidence of documentary reports and the quantity and distribution of imported pottery. The documents make it clear that German merchants were present in the town and generally keep themselves aloof from the local citizens. But the pottery tells a different and more subtle story of interaction and involvement in which all parties are potentia…
The stratigraphy of a life. An archaeological dialogue with Leo Klejn
Few archaeologists can claim to have written more than 300 articles in three different languages, let alone on topics as diverse as the philosophy of archaeology, the Ukrainian Eneolithic and the anatomy of the Iliad. Still fewer to have convinced Stalin, to have been convicted for homosexuality, and to have written a half-million copy bestseller about his years in prison. Only one archaeologist has. Despite all this, he is still poorly understoo…
Fondling on the kitchen table - Artefacts, sexualities and performative metaphors from the 15th to the 17th centuries
The term 'sexual metaphor' consists of two elements: sexuality and metaphor. Both individually and together provide a perspective on material culture, and particularly on the current discussions on the relations between humans, things and materiality. Using such relatively common objects as cock taps, bollock daggers and redware pipkins as examples, the article examines sexual metaphors in material culture from the 15th to the 17th centuries. Sex…
Photographic Bodies and Biographical Narratives
Although the new approaches of biographical writing and current theories on photography have similar tendencies, there are also frictions between them. They stem from the commitment of biography to concentrate on a certain person and his or her life course, in my case the life of the State Archaeologist Juhani Rinne (1872–1950). I present photographs of Rinne as a case study and focus on the tensions between biographical narrativity and photograp…
Functional Ladles or Ceremonial Cutlery? A Cultural Biography of Prehistoric Wooden Spoons from Finland
Five wooden spoons dated to the Sub-Neolithic and Bronze Age are known from Finland. Four of them have an animal head carved onto their handles. The decoration has usually been seen as a sign of the spoons' totemistic and ceremonial use. Three of the spoons are stray finds, one comes from a possible cult site and one from a dwelling site. Two spoons are made of Siberian pine, which makes them objects of trade exchange; the westernmost natural occ…
The stratigraphy of a life. An archaeological dialogue with Leo Klejn
Few archaeologists can claim to have written more than 300 articles in three different languages, let alone on topics as diverse as the philosophy of archaeology, the Ukrainian Eneolithic and the anatomy of the Iliad. Still fewer to have convinced Stalin, to have been convicted for homosexuality, and to have written a half-million copy bestseller about his years in prison. Only one archaeologist has. Despite all this, he is still poorly understoo…
Seeking Common Ground for Archaeology and Design
Lily Diaz-Kommonen. Art, Fact, and Artifact Production. Design Research and Multidisciplinary Collaboration. (Publication series of University of Art and Design Helsinki, A 37). University of Art and Design, Helsinki, 2002. 272 pp. ISBN 951-558-107-9. (http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/Mulli/e_index.html) There is an urgent need for new frameworks of knowledge that enable us, not only to investigate, but also, to create, is final sentence Lily Diaz-Kommone…
The Turku Archipelago
Six apostle spoons from Finland
There are six apostle spoons known from Finland. The northern European phenomenon of apostle spoons began at the end of the 15th century and was associated with the custom of giving a newborn baby a spoon as a gift. Their popularity faded at the end of the 17th century. They were never as much in vogue and produced in as great quantities elsewhere as in England. The article discusses aspects of their production and the most characteristic feature…
Welding Theory with Tourism
Industrial archaeology, like any other branch of archaeology, forms a place where past and present meet. That how and to what ends the meeting place have been set up, defines the reciprocal binding between the two. In Finnish industrial archaeology, efforts to construct this stage have been very patchy, occasional and machine-centred. The first proper archaeological excavation at an industrial site took place in the 1980s, and the first Finnish a…
The tedious & expensive journey
Described as ‘the second founder of the British Museum’, Augustus Wollaston Franks, Keeper of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, methodically extended the British Museum's collections into parts of the world previously little considered. A private and public collector, he was, unusually, very much a European. He made numerous journeys to the Continent, collecting, advising and meeting Continental scholars. In August and September …
Defining a culture
This paper explores the influence of merchants operating out of Germany in medieval Turku by comparing the evidence of documentary reports and the quantity and distribution of imported pottery. The documents make it clear that German merchants were present in the town and generally keep themselves aloof from the local citizens. But the pottery tells a different and more subtle story of interaction and involvement in which all parties are potentia…
Finger of a saint, thumb of a priest
The relics of Turku Cathedral are remains belonging to the bodies of holy persons, different from ours, even today, although the cathedral is the see for the archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, and relics are not on public display. Among the relics of the cathedral, there is a fragment of a radius, which according to its authentica, belongs to St Henry. Relics and reliquaries were in the core of medieval piety, and the cult …
Farming and Brass Kettles as Forms of Colonial Encounter
Farming and Brass Kettles as Forms of Colonial Encounter:New Sweden from an Archaeological Perspective Visa Immonen The History of New Sweden and its Margins Historians have spilled much ink regarding the seventeenth-century colony of New Sweden in the Delaware Valley, an area consisting of north Delaware, southwest New Jersey, and southeast Pennsylvania. A number of accounts have been written concerning the colony's history, Amandus Johnson's (1…
Artifacts, iconology, and the visual process
While retaining the iconological method, the study of Finnish as well as Scandinavian medieval liturgical artifacts has moved towards the analysis of their wider visual context. Such a shift creates a tension between the traditional means of art historical inquiry, and the concerns of visual studies. The visual disseminates into the nonvisual, and this complex relationship with the semiotic, material as well as social, is crucial for approaching …
Photographic Bodies and Biographical Narratives
Although the new approaches of biographical writing and current theories on photography have similar tendencies, there are also frictions between them. They stem from the commitment of biography to concentrate on a certain person and his or her life course, in my case the life of the State Archaeologist Juhani Rinne (1872–1950). I present photographs of Rinne as a case study and focus on the tensions between biographical narrativity and photograp…
Heritageisation as a material process
The old episcopal crosier of Turku Cathedral is a typical heritage item: a clearly identifiable object pregnant with traditions, including both medievalism and nationalism. A subject of the heritageisation process, it has become a familiar and discursive part of the past. The damaged and worn state of the crosier, which has lost its hook of silver, is a necessary indicator of the passage of time traced back to the Middle Ages. In 1931, the crosie…
Connecting Things through the Visual Arts
Medieval archaeology as a discipline is usually defined in relation to written sources and history, while other kinds of sources and scholarly traditions studying the same period are overlooked. With a small group of 14th-century crescent moon pendants of bronze from Finland as its focal point, the present article analyses the way in which archaeology connects with the visual arts and the discipline specialized in studying them, art history. Inst…
Fondling on the kitchen table - Artefacts, sexualities and performative metaphors from the 15th to the 17th centuries
The term 'sexual metaphor' consists of two elements: sexuality and metaphor. Both individually and together provide a perspective on material culture, and particularly on the current discussions on the relations between humans, things and materiality. Using such relatively common objects as cock taps, bollock daggers and redware pipkins as examples, the article examines sexual metaphors in material culture from the 15th to the 17th centuries. Sex…
Quidditching’ and the Emergence of New Heritage Identities — Amateur Metal Detecting in Finland
This article analyses the historical formation of the metal-detectorist community in Finland, and, at the same time, shows that its homogeneity is somewhat illusory. The study is based on a questionnaire survey of amateur metal detectorists and professional Finnish archaeologists, and their attitudes towards each other. We combine a statistical examination of the structure and attitudes of the amateur detectorist community with an analysis of the…
Medieval Desire to Consume and Its Powerhouses
The question of the character of the premodern resonates throughout all archaeological research. The issue gives vibrancy to the conceptual framework in which traces of the past are examined, while
Teaching Archaeological Heritage Management. Towards a Change in Paradigms
The concept of archaeological heritage management (AHM) has been key to wider archaeological research and preservation agendas for some decades. Many universities and other education providers now offer what is best termed heritage management education (HME) in various forms. The emphasis is commonly on archaeological aspects of heritage in a broad sense and different terms are often interchangeable in practice. In an innovative working-conferenc…
From Bones to Sacred Artefact
The cult of saints and the subsequent interest in relics constituted one of the essential characteristics of medieval Western Christianity. In particular, relics and reliquaries are prime examples of the importance of materiality in devotion. In the present article we analyse one of the medieval skull relics of Turku Cathedral and its material characteristics in detail. Previous examinations undertaken in the 1920s and 1940s produced two theories…
Pyhän tähteet
Arvio väitöskirjasta Sofia Lahti, Silver arms and silk heads: Medieval reliquaries in the Nordic countries (Åbo Akademi University Press), 2019
Radiohiiliajoituksen mahdollisuuksia ja ongelmia keskiaikaisten puuveistosten ajoituksessa
Radiohiiliajoitusta ei ole juuri käytetty keskiaikaisten veistosten tai alttarikaappien ajoittamiseen Suomessa. Luonnontieteellisten menetelmien hyödyntäminen kuvanveiston tutkimuksessa avaa kuitenkin uusia näköaloja. Samaan aikaan on tärkeä muistaa, että taidehistoriallisten objektien materiaalisen kokonaisuuden ymmärtäminen edellyttääradiohiiliajoitustulosten yhdistämistä ja vertailua perinteisin taidehistoriallisin menetelmin tuotettuihin ajoi…
From passion to bereavement
The Finnish diplomat Harri Holma and his wife Alli, along with their son, art historian Klaus, created a private collection of 554 items. They acquired antique pieces and works of art in Berlin, Paris and Rome from the 1920s to the 1950s. The collection consists of Western and Southern European paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles and tableware, dating from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Initially the objects were acquired by the…
The life of wood in North-eastern Europe in AD 1100–1600
This project develops theoretical as well as methodological tools for the study of ancient wood, focusing on wood-use in North-eastern Europe within the period AD 1100–1600. The authors approach wood within the framework of object biographies and link the study of wooden artefacts with broader archaeological understandings of formation processes and environmental reconstruction
Metal detecting as a social formation
The hobby of metal detecting has mostly been examined from the perspectives of archaeology and heritage administration. Although fulfilling archaeological needs, such an approach neglects the social analysis of this pastime. In 2019, we conducted a survey of metal detector enthusiasts and heritage professionals in Finland, the results of which are compared with those of a corresponding survey carried out in 2014. Within five years, metal detectin…
Bildung as the process of cultural heritage
In this article, I describe the 19th-century Finnish philosopher Johan Vilhelm Snellman’s ideas about Bildung, and show how this concept provided another basis for cultural heritage, which diverges from how the term was used after the 1960s and 1970s. Bildung refers to the historically unfolding process in which humanity, nations, and individuals, through their own efforts, become what they are. It is the movement towards self-realisation. As par…
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