Tina Paphitis
Biographic Data
| ID | 788599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina Paphitis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina |
| FAMILY NAME | Paphitis |
| SIGNATURE | PAPHITIS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Folklore Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Monstrous Heritage
Folk Magic and the Haunting of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland
This article engages with certain peculiar finds and features that we have documented at former German WWII military camps in Finnish Lapland, with a particular emphasis on an excavated assemblage that has affinities to traditional ritual (sacrificial) practices. The relevant finds and features date from the post-war period, but they are meaningfully associated with WWII sites. We consider the possible connections of these finds and features to f…
Weird quantities
Modern mining operates on enormous scales and quantities that go beyond everyday comprehension, which in turn has existential and metaphysical implications, and this article is an experiment in characterising ‘existentially disturbing’ aspects of extraction landscapes. We attempt to characterise and make sense of the Hannukainen mining landscape with regard to its deeply contradictory and dissonant - effectively monstrous - nature as an experienc…
Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities
For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build new futures for Arctic residents and Indigenous p…
Minding the field
This introduction to this special issue considers various approaches to understanding ‘the field’ as an object of archaeological and anthropological research, and researchers’ own engagements with it. We draw out some theoretical and methodological approaches to the field as a way of interrogating the cognitive and physical engagements of the researcher with it, not only as a place and process of data gathering and knowledge production, but one o…
Fielding the mind in the high North
Diversity, connectivity and change
The very nature of this journal fosters and supports a variety of approaches and perspectives in the exploration of disparate geographies, chronologies and cultures. As such, we can often present t
Haunted landscapes
This short introductory paper presents some key aspects of hauntological approaches in cultural studies and explores the varied connections between landscapes, archaeology, folklore, and the spectres of the past. It examines how these spectres can be uncovered in archaeological contexts, tied up with contemporary anxieties, and threaten the future. It further considers how spectres of the past in archaeology and folklore are adapted, commercialis…
Haunted landscapes
Folklore and Public Archaeology in the UK
This paper presents the potential for folklore to enrich studies of, and participation in, public archaeology. Referring to the varied approaches to public archaeology in the United Kingdom, and focusing on sites and landscapes, it will lay out the current status of folklore in five key areas of public archaeology: the history of archaeology, multivocality, historical consciousness, the archaeological imagination/representation, and heritage mana…
Have You Come to Take the King Away
The past two decades have seen a significant increase in archaeological investigations implicitly, or explicitly, encompassing folkloric material. Many such publications begin with a brief mention of the early historical connection between the two disciplines via antiquarianism, and the problems and possibilities of engaging with folklore in archaeological research. However, it is apparent that many archaeological researchers have little or no un…
Have You Come to Take the King Away
The past two decades have seen a significant increase in archaeological investigations implicitly, or explicitly, encompassing folkloric material. Many such publications begin with a brief mention of the early historical connection between the two disciplines via antiquarianism, and the problems and possibilities of engaging with folklore in archaeological research. However, it is apparent that many archaeological researchers have little or no un…
Folklore and Public Archaeology in the UK
This paper presents the potential for folklore to enrich studies of, and participation in, public archaeology. Referring to the varied approaches to public archaeology in the United Kingdom, and focusing on sites and landscapes, it will lay out the current status of folklore in five key areas of public archaeology: the history of archaeology, multivocality, historical consciousness, the archaeological imagination/representation, and heritage mana…
Weird quantities
Modern mining operates on enormous scales and quantities that go beyond everyday comprehension, which in turn has existential and metaphysical implications, and this article is an experiment in characterising ‘existentially disturbing’ aspects of extraction landscapes. We attempt to characterise and make sense of the Hannukainen mining landscape with regard to its deeply contradictory and dissonant - effectively monstrous - nature as an experienc…
Have You Come to Take the King Away
The past two decades have seen a significant increase in archaeological investigations implicitly, or explicitly, encompassing folkloric material. Many such publications begin with a brief mention of the early historical connection between the two disciplines via antiquarianism, and the problems and possibilities of engaging with folklore in archaeological research. However, it is apparent that many archaeological researchers have little or no un…
Folklore and Public Archaeology in the UK
This paper presents the potential for folklore to enrich studies of, and participation in, public archaeology. Referring to the varied approaches to public archaeology in the United Kingdom, and focusing on sites and landscapes, it will lay out the current status of folklore in five key areas of public archaeology: the history of archaeology, multivocality, historical consciousness, the archaeological imagination/representation, and heritage mana…
Haunted landscapes
This short introductory paper presents some key aspects of hauntological approaches in cultural studies and explores the varied connections between landscapes, archaeology, folklore, and the spectres of the past. It examines how these spectres can be uncovered in archaeological contexts, tied up with contemporary anxieties, and threaten the future. It further considers how spectres of the past in archaeology and folklore are adapted, commercialis…
Haunted landscapes
Minding the field
This introduction to this special issue considers various approaches to understanding ‘the field’ as an object of archaeological and anthropological research, and researchers’ own engagements with it. We draw out some theoretical and methodological approaches to the field as a way of interrogating the cognitive and physical engagements of the researcher with it, not only as a place and process of data gathering and knowledge production, but one o…
Fielding the mind in the high North
Diversity, connectivity and change
The very nature of this journal fosters and supports a variety of approaches and perspectives in the exploration of disparate geographies, chronologies and cultures. As such, we can often present t
Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities
For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build new futures for Arctic residents and Indigenous p…
Folk Magic and the Haunting of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland
This article engages with certain peculiar finds and features that we have documented at former German WWII military camps in Finnish Lapland, with a particular emphasis on an excavated assemblage that has affinities to traditional ritual (sacrificial) practices. The relevant finds and features date from the post-war period, but they are meaningfully associated with WWII sites. We consider the possible connections of these finds and features to f…
Weird quantities
Modern mining operates on enormous scales and quantities that go beyond everyday comprehension, which in turn has existential and metaphysical implications, and this article is an experiment in characterising ‘existentially disturbing’ aspects of extraction landscapes. We attempt to characterise and make sense of the Hannukainen mining landscape with regard to its deeply contradictory and dissonant - effectively monstrous - nature as an experienc…
Monstrous Heritage
History (9 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Folklore (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 works)