Ágústa Edwald
Biographic Data
| ID | 100114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ágústa Edwald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ágústa |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwald |
| SIGNATURE | EDWALD Á |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0261-9504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Multiple archives of modernity
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 19 th -century Icelanders’ navigation of colonial networks as they altered their relative position in the…
Mountains of waste and wasted mountains
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 …
The Archaeology of Z
Household material culture in 19th-century Iceland
The paper looks at changes in the composition of archaeological assemblages from 19th-century Iceland. It contextualises an increase in ceramics with other domestic materials by combining archaeological data with evidence from probate inventories. The study confirms that there was a marked change in domestic materiality in Iceland in the middle of the 19th century and suggests that further research into the origins and effects of this change need…
Community and Conservation
n recent decades, sustainability research and historical ecology research have made the incorporation of local and traditional ecological knowledge (LTK) a priority for the purpose of understanding recent environmental change and achieving long-term perspectives on local resource interactions. This chapter brings together the evidence from archaeological, ecological, historical, and ethnographic sources to document the 1,100 year management of wi…
Ágústa Edwald Maxwell
Menningararfur a Islandi: gagnrýni og greining is a book with an agenda. Its authors offer a timely critique of heritage construction in Iceland and clearly demonstrate how discourse and performanc
On decentring ethnicity in buildings research
The concept of ethnicity is a prevailing explanatory device in studies of colonial architecture. This paper argues for decentring ethnicity in buildings research through treating buildings as 'assemblages' of both material and social 'things'. Drawing on a case study from the late 19th-century settler landscape of Manitoba, Canada, we illustrate how settler architecture - conceived of as an 'assemblage' - can shed light on the events, processes a…
Between islands of ethnicity and shared landscapes
This article reviews and rethinks the study of cultural landscapes in the context of western Canadian settlement history. The historiography of scholarship on the colonial period, across a broad array of disciplines, follows themes central to the study of continuity and change in settler societies, including assimilation, cultural revivalism and transnationalism. Influenced by historical conditions particular to the region, namely, the creation o…
Islands of change vs. islands of disaster
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanitie…
Fishing for Modernity
Islands of change vs. islands of disaster
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanitie…
Fishing for Modernity
Between islands of ethnicity and shared landscapes
This article reviews and rethinks the study of cultural landscapes in the context of western Canadian settlement history. The historiography of scholarship on the colonial period, across a broad array of disciplines, follows themes central to the study of continuity and change in settler societies, including assimilation, cultural revivalism and transnationalism. Influenced by historical conditions particular to the region, namely, the creation o…
Household material culture in 19th-century Iceland
The paper looks at changes in the composition of archaeological assemblages from 19th-century Iceland. It contextualises an increase in ceramics with other domestic materials by combining archaeological data with evidence from probate inventories. The study confirms that there was a marked change in domestic materiality in Iceland in the middle of the 19th century and suggests that further research into the origins and effects of this change need…
On decentring ethnicity in buildings research
The concept of ethnicity is a prevailing explanatory device in studies of colonial architecture. This paper argues for decentring ethnicity in buildings research through treating buildings as 'assemblages' of both material and social 'things'. Drawing on a case study from the late 19th-century settler landscape of Manitoba, Canada, we illustrate how settler architecture - conceived of as an 'assemblage' - can shed light on the events, processes a…
Fishing for Modernity
Islands of change vs. islands of disaster
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanitie…
Between islands of ethnicity and shared landscapes
This article reviews and rethinks the study of cultural landscapes in the context of western Canadian settlement history. The historiography of scholarship on the colonial period, across a broad array of disciplines, follows themes central to the study of continuity and change in settler societies, including assimilation, cultural revivalism and transnationalism. Influenced by historical conditions particular to the region, namely, the creation o…
Ágústa Edwald Maxwell
Menningararfur a Islandi: gagnrýni og greining is a book with an agenda. Its authors offer a timely critique of heritage construction in Iceland and clearly demonstrate how discourse and performanc
On decentring ethnicity in buildings research
The concept of ethnicity is a prevailing explanatory device in studies of colonial architecture. This paper argues for decentring ethnicity in buildings research through treating buildings as 'assemblages' of both material and social 'things'. Drawing on a case study from the late 19th-century settler landscape of Manitoba, Canada, we illustrate how settler architecture - conceived of as an 'assemblage' - can shed light on the events, processes a…
Community and Conservation
n recent decades, sustainability research and historical ecology research have made the incorporation of local and traditional ecological knowledge (LTK) a priority for the purpose of understanding recent environmental change and achieving long-term perspectives on local resource interactions. This chapter brings together the evidence from archaeological, ecological, historical, and ethnographic sources to document the 1,100 year management of wi…
The Archaeology of Z
Household material culture in 19th-century Iceland
The paper looks at changes in the composition of archaeological assemblages from 19th-century Iceland. It contextualises an increase in ceramics with other domestic materials by combining archaeological data with evidence from probate inventories. The study confirms that there was a marked change in domestic materiality in Iceland in the middle of the 19th century and suggests that further research into the origins and effects of this change need…
Mountains of waste and wasted mountains
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 …
Multiple archives of modernity
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 19 th -century Icelanders’ navigation of colonial networks as they altered their relative position in the…
Archaeology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works)