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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2024).
ARCREATE. Å samskape nye forteljingar om handverk, kunst og kreativ kunnskap.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2023).
Midway seminar: Emerging technology in traditional craft. Towards sustainable practice.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef & Lindahl, Anders
(2023).
What happened in the hinterland? A batch study of early bucket-shaped pots from the 4th and 5th centuries AD in Southwest Norway.
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Rogaland in Southwest Norway was a core production area for bucket-shaped pottery throughout its era of around 200 years. Recent work by Elna Siv Kristoffersen, Bente Magnus and colleagues have provided a well-developed understanding of the final century of this Migration Period Leitfossil: certain ceramic craft networks rose to prominence, culminating in workshop milieux intimately tied to the formation of central places like those in Jæren, Rogaland from around AD 450/60, eventually making bucket-shaped alongside Style I metalwork. Notwithstanding this inventive cross-craft focus, however, we know less about the first century of production. A recent study of the Augland ceramic workshop suggests that the rise of the Jæren workshop milieux was concurrent with a gradual decline of production at Augland, which was related to the Oddernes elite milieu in Agder. Consequently, the areas around and between these two regional nodal points become of particular interest. What happened to connectivity in this hinterland during the emergent first century of bucket-shaped? This batch study identifies paste recipes and traces the movements of pots. Cognisant of the lack of comprehensive archaeometric studies, partly due to costs, this paper presents a transferrable and relatively inexpensive approach that combines qualitative macroscopy with quantitative analysis of data from a handheld X-ray Fluorescence (h-XRF) device.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2023).
Medicine bottle(s), Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2023).
Uproot recipes: An archaeology of creative knowledge and memory-making in southern Africa.
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What happens to the knowledge of craftspeople and their daily material practices in the aftermath of disruption and uproot? Using a temporally layered approach, this paper draws on three examples of problem-solving in the aftermath of involuntary relocation in southern Africa. Contexts of turbulence, stress and extraordinary mobility, in which violent factors set people, objects and materials in motion, often cause challenges to artisans’ work – and may result in disruption or even discontinuation. However, craftspeople also tend to find creative means to express resistance or connectivity. A combination of contemporary and deeper-time cases offers several lenses through which to view ways of engaging with new materials, knowledges and networks. I outline an approach to technological knowledge and skills that centres on the creativity of ceramic learning networks, the vulnerability of homes and households as arenas for knowledge transmission, and craftwork as memory-making.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2023).
Refleksjonar over Lines Made By Walking.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2023).
Panelsamtale: Barn og unge i utdanning, arbeidsliv og samfunnsliv.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
Katalogtekst: Om Persepsjon 22.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
Uproot recipes: An archaeological approach to creative knowledge and memory-making in turbulent times.
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Korleis handterer handverkarar bråe endringar og forflyttingar? Kva skjer med all deira opparbeida kunnskap og etablerte praksis etter slike store hendingar? Korleis løyser dei utfordringa med å måtte bryte opp frå alt kjent og kjært, og korleis etablerer dei seg på nytt og held ved like kontaktar med det dei har lagt bak seg? I dette føredraget søkjer eg svar – og ønsker innspel frå publikum – på desse spørsmåla ved å vise til ein serie etnografiske og arkeologiske eksempel eg sjølv har jobba med. Eksempla er henta frå to nye forskingsprosjekt: ARCREATE. An Archaeology of Creative Knowledge in Turbulent Times i det sørlege Afrika og Augland Fingerprints – Tracing the Materials, Knowledge and Networks of Lost Iron Age Crafts in Scandinavia.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
Uproot recipes: An archaeological approach to creative knowledge and memory-making.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
Panelsamtale om praksis og arbeidslivserfaring.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
Kunstnersamtale Persepsjon 22.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
Om persepsjon.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
Learning about materials. Dialogical approaches to archaeological research.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
Remembering by making: An archaeological approach to creative knowledge after uproot and expulsion.
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What happens to the creative knowledge and daily practices of material culture in the aftermath of expulsion? To what extent do contexts of turbulence, stress and extraordinary mobility, in which violent social factors set people, knowledges, objects and materials in motion, challenge or nourish artisans’ creativity and connectivity? Seeking to answer these questions through a temporally layered approach, this paper draws on ethnographic and archaeological examples of practical problem-solving in the aftermath of involuntary uproot and relocation in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The combination of contemporary and deeper-time cases offers several lenses through which to view ways of knowing and engaging with new social and material landscapes after arrival in a new political environment. This focus brings together two knowledge domains that are often kept separate: artisans’ intimate engagements with their surroundings and the social and political relevance of ancestral spirits. By these empirical and theoretical means, I outline an archaeological approach to knowledge that centres on the creativity of ceramic learning networks, the vulnerability of homes and households as arenas for knowledge transmission, and craftwork as memory-making.
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Sontum, Kaja Hannedatter; Jammeh, Haddy; Khalid, Sarah; Gamal, Omar Samy & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
Hvem bestemmer hva som er vår kulturarv?
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Lane, Paul J.; Graham, Angus; Dann, Rachael & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
Introduction to the workshop.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2022).
In the silent aftermath. An archaeology of creative knowledge after disruption.
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What happens to learning and transmission of practical knowledge in a community after a disruptive event or intervention? This paper explores three cases in southern Africa where external involvements or accidents have become catalysts for local problem-solving, invention and new forms of knowledge. Commonly, the aftermath is characterized by renewed engagements with earth materials, ‘activation’ of certain places of importance, and local dissonance about issues related to heritage and the past. Two of the cases relate to new ways of handling materials after the introduction of new technology by well-meant external initiatives, in order to build and strengthen local capacity. The third follows the aftermath of untimely death, specifically the employment of certain forms of material culture to prevent future temporal voids and sense of nothingness. Developing a contemporary archaeology approach, I explore homes as itinerant and flexible spaces for making, creativity and memory-work after events causing disruption and turbulence. I relate to current calls for knowledge that challenges preconceived notions about mobility, interaction and transmission of skills. The view of households as mobile workshops, as ‘laboratories’ for creative experimentation, provides a departure point from which to critically question the ontological anchoring of our engagements with household materiality. In this manner, the case studies will be related to a wider discussion of micropolitics of knowledge among archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and linguists.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2021).
Om årets utstilling: arkeologen møter kunsthandverkarane.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2021).
Wayfaring with the materials.
In Husvik-Olaussen, Gunhild Mathea (Eds.),
Norske Kunsthåndverkere Årsutstilling 2021.
Norske Kunsthåndverkere.
ISSN 978-82-93400-09-7.
p. 131–134.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2021).
På vandring med materiala.
In Husvik-Olaussen, Gunhild Mathea (Eds.),
Norske Kunsthåndverkere Årsutstilling 2021.
Norske Kunsthåndverkere.
ISSN 978-82-93400-09-7.
p. 123–126.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2021).
Africanising African Archaeology. SAfA Plenary Session.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2021).
On ethnography and ethnoarchaeology.
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Petursdottir, Thora; Riede, Felix & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2021).
Welcome to the New Environmental Archaeologies seminar series.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2020).
End seminar PhD: "Swahili Social Landscapes".
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2020).
Sluttseminar PhD-avhandling: "Mechanism of Security".
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2020).
Mat og miljø i jernalderen.
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Haugsbø, Håkon & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2020).
Desse dagar: Klimaendringar og migrasjon.
[Radio].
NRK P2.
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Klimaendringane vil føra til store folkevandringar framover. Korleis skal Europa handtera DEN migrantstraumen? Dette er blant spørsmåla som blir stilt i denne vekas utgåve av Desse dagar med Håkon Haugsbø på NRK P2.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef & Rødsrud, Christian Løchsen
(2019).
Augland - en tragedie i tre akter? Og litt om keramikken fra Dilling.
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Nygård, Morten & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2019).
Arkeologen som stiller dei store spørsmåla.
[Newspaper].
Grenda.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2019).
The end of prehistory: Urbanism and mobility in southern Africa, c. AD 1700–1850.
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The terminal centuries of the Iron Age in the southern African interior saw an accelerated development of technologies and urban architecture. This talk gives an archaeological account of making, creativity, memory-work and the role of crafts in connecting people and places in a time of turbulence and high mobility.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2019).
Material culture and translocality in the terminal Iron Age in southern Africa.
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Lane, Paul J.; Graham, Angus; Dann, Rachael & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2019).
Introduction.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2019).
Material culture and translocality. The terminal Iron Age in southern Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2019).
Relocated: people, materials and knowledges in motion in southern Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2019).
The mobile workshop. Households as arenas for creativity and memory-work in the turbulent terminal Iron Age in southern Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef & Babalola, Abidemi Babatunde
(2018).
Archaeology and deep histories of science and technology in Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef & Babalola, Abidemi Babatunde
(2018).
Archaeology as a method for doing African Studies.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2018).
Heritage in Motion. People, Things and Materials in New Places.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2018).
Who are the locals? Local craft knowledge and heritage-making in the aftermath of a capacity-building project in southern Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2018).
Mobility in historical and contemporary archaeology in southern Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef & Kristoffersen, Siv
(2018).
The making of a terminal Migration Period ‘technology of remembrance’ in SW Norway.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2018).
Why did one collapse and the other not? Comparing technologies in turbulent Iron Age phases in southern Africa and Scandinavia.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2018).
Time and necropolitics: heritage-making in contemporary southern Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2017).
Historical Ecology and State Formation in the Shashi-Limpopo Region of Southern Africa: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2017).
Hva gjør teknologisk utvikling med kunnskap om fortida?
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef; Bjerregaard, Peter & Schüssler, Alexandra
(2017).
On Letting Go / Om å gi slipp.
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Jacobsen, Erik & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2017).
Kulturreportasjen Kunst: Kopernikus møter kunsten.
[Radio].
NRK P2.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2017).
An archaeologist meets a moon crater soup plate.
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Nyamushosho, Robert Tendai; Chirikure, Shadreck & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2017).
From Mapela to Mananzve: Archaeological survey in the Shashi Region, Southwestern Zimbabwe.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2017).
Relocated: Ceramic knowledge in motion in terminal Iron Age towns and beyond.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2017).
Historical ecology and state formations in southern Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2017).
Djup tid, samtid, framtid: Ei arkeologisk synfaring av grenselandet.
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Arkeologi er nok ikkje det systerfaget som ligg aller fremst i det tverrvitskaplege medvitet til dei fleste sosialantropologar. Men det stiller seg annleis den andre vegen for svært mange arkeologar. Sistnemnte er uløyseleg knytt til det antropologiske prosjektet i sin vidaste og mest inkluderande forstand; som utforsking av menneskelege eksistensbetingelsar og alltid pågåande engasjement med omgjevnadane. Den opplevde distansen mellom dei to faga er nok også eit høgst kontekstuelt betinga fenomen, for ikkje å seie eit lokalt problem. Mange stader elles i verda går samarbeidet føre seg saumlaust og på dagleg basis. Sjølv om det til tider er for lite samkvem og for mange strukturelle skjær i sjøen er det få, om nokon, arkeologiske debattar som ikkje på ein eller annan måte inkluderer bruk av, eller kritisk refleksjon over, sosialantropologisk innsikt. Spesielt tett er arkeologiens forhold til etnografi. Dette som metodisk tilnærming, som kjelde til tolkingsinspirasjon og som trope for kritisk sjølvstudium. Som den disiplinen som eigentleg aldri vendte seg bort frå det fysiske, substansielle og materielle, kan arkeologi mellom anna bringe inn diakron forståing og kritiske, gjennomtenkte tilnærmingar til temporalitet til framtidig samarbeid og diskusjon om materielle spor. Arkeologi står også strategisk plassert i eit tverrvitskapleg neksus som kan gje grobotn for interessant vidareutvikling av begge disiplinar, ikkje minst i kraft av sine nære band til fleire ulike naturvitskapar. Ved å dra veksel på eigne erfaringar frå forskingsprosjekt i det sørlege Afrika og Skandinavia, og etter å ha hatt det overordna ansvaret for arkeologiutdanninga ved UiO dei siste fire åra, vil eg presentere ei arkeologisk synfaring av mulighetar for metodisk, teoretisk og tematisk samarbeid som utgår frå felles interesser for materielle spor: i djup tid, i nyleg fortid, i samtid og i tenkeleg framtid.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef; House, Michelle; Nyamushosho, Robert Tendai & Dyvart, Katrine Furu
(2017).
Historical Ecology and State Formation: Project Status and Future Prospects.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2016).
Introduksjon og opning av konferansen.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2016).
Introduction to the PULA workshop.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2016).
Memory, space/knowledge tensions and the necropolitics of contemporary pasts in southern Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2016).
Clay on display: potting as performance in terminal Iron Age towns and beyond.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2016).
By a street robot in South Africa.
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Sontum, Kaja Hannedatter & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2016).
Tensions Between Unity and Diversity: Responses by Norwegian Heritage Management to Challenges of Globalization and Demographic Changes.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2016).
The necropolitics of contemporary pasts in southern Africa.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2016).
Ethnographic research and Iron Age ceramics in southern Africa: Technology, spatiality and style.
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Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2016).
Experimentation, innovative acceleration and collapse: the case of ceramic technology in Iron Age western Scandinavia, c. AD 200-550.
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Kristoffersen, Elna Siv & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
(2016).
Migration Period Graves in Southern and Western Norway, AD 400-550.
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