Anne Eriksen

• Eriksen, Anne (2026). Knowledge, Formats, and Fish. Journal for the History of Knowledge (JHoK). 7. doi: 10.55283/jhk.21777. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Society for the Promotion of Norwegian Fisheries (Selskabet for de norske fiskeriers fremme) was established in 1879 and started publishing the Norwegian Fisheries’ Journal (Norsk Fiskeritidende). The article argues that this journal, with a total of about 22,500 pages, has been vital to establish “the Norwegian fisheries” as a field of activity and knowledge. It is not only a historical source of information on the fisheries and fish trade in Norway, but a historical agent in its own right representing specific knowledge-making practices. The article explores how the journal was a driving force in constituting the fisheries as an object of knowledge and politics, and established them as networks of connected elements, agents, and issues. The exploration draws on two key theoretical concepts that both serve to highlight the journal’s own agency and performative dimensions: format and scale or scaling.

• Eriksen, Anne (2026). Names, knowledge, and formats: Transformations of oceanic literacy | Science in Context | Cambridge Core. Science in Context. ISSN 0269-8897. p. 1–14. doi: 10.1017/S0269889725100963. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Names, knowledge, and formats: Transformations of oceanic literacy

• Eriksen, Anne (2025). Heritage, Heirs and Performative Competence. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. 17(1), p. 57–76. doi: 10.3384/cu.5371. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Cultural heritage is traces from the past that are ascribed meaning in the present. This basic tenet of current heritage theory is often followed by a call for more democratic heritage processes and the inclusion of more diverse values. The article points to the ensuing paradox: what is left to define heritage when it is neither inherent qualities, nor a set of general values? To explore some issues raised by this paradox, the article focusses on the relation between heritage and its owners or heirs, seeing them both as actants, mutually constituted (Greimas). Consequently, heritage cannot exist without heirs. The article argues that to be socially acknowledged, the role as heir must be claimed in specific ways. The heirs must be able to demonstrate a specific performative competence, i.e. master the metacultural level the defines heritage. These discourse and practices will be closely related to the dominant values already defining the heritage field, often representative of the hegemonic classes and leading cultural groups. The article investigates three cases in which the values and ideas of the "heirs presumptive" were at odds with the authorised heritage discourse, based on the habitus and values of other social groups.

• Eriksen, Anne (2025). Ubiquitous and Transparent. Ship Models in Museums. Ethnologia Scandinavica. A Journal for Nordic Ethnology. ISSN 0348-9698. 55, p. 6–21. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2025). Hans Hansen Lilienskiolds historieskriving og dens italienske bakgrunn. Historisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0018-263X. 104(4), p. 397–411. doi: 10.18261/ht.104.4.5. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Hans Hansen Lilienskiold er i dag mest kjent for sine beskrivelser av Finnmark, verket Speculum boreale. Hans øvrige arbeider, reisedagboken fra hans lange europeiske dannelsesreise og to historieverk, har fått mindre oppmerksomhet. Artikkelen argumenterer for at det er tette sammenhenger mellom alle arbeidene, og at innflytelsen kommer fra den italienske historieskriveren og kunstteoretikeren Emanuele Tesauro. Kunnskapskonvensjoner som Lilienskiold tilegnet seg under dannelsesreisen, har formet både finnmarksbeskrivelsen og historieskrivingen hans på grunnleggende måter.

• Eriksen, Anne (2025). "De gamle Romere". 1800-tallets turister i Roma. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. p. 17–28. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2025). Frilandsmuseet som sted og som landskap, Kloge Huse. Formidling af bæredygtighed på Frilandsmuseet. Arkitekturforlaget B. ISSN 9788792700537. p. 39–43. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2025). The Epistemology of Examples: Models and Numbers in the Folklife Studies of Eilert Sundt (1857). Cultural Analysis. ISSN 2572-0643. 23(2), p. 71–83. doi: https:/www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~culturalanalysis/volume23_2/vol23_2_eriksen.html. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Eilert Sundt is claimed the founding father of both ethnology and sociology in Norway, due to a series of works investigating living conditions, housing and customs among the urban and rural poor in Norway during the mid-nineteenth century. Sundt made extensive use of statistics and quantitative approaches, as well as of detailed descriptions and stories which he calls ‘examples’. The combination situates his work at the intersection between traditional rhetoric and the modern “trust in numbers” which came to give birth both to the discipline of ‘political arithmetic’ and to large scale projects like public health programs. The article examines how Sundt negotiated his position, oscillating between two fundamentally different strategies of reasoning: by particularities, i.e. examples, and by statistics, representing a fundamental challenge to the epistemology of examples.

• Eriksen, Anne (2024). Arkiv, samlinger og den nye kunnskapshistorien: Tilfellet Halvor Andersen. Norsk arkivforum. ISSN 0800-3106. 30, p. 13–32. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Ved sin død i 1810 donerte den norske embetsmannen Halvor Andersen sin samling på ca. 15.000 bøker til det planlagte universitetsbiblioteket i Christiania. Sammen med bøkene fulgte en stor mengde historisk arkivmateriale, mye av det i avskrift. Materialet hadde Andersen samlet gjennom et langt yrkesliv i Danske kanselli i København. I 1916 ble det satt opp et register over arkivmaterialet, utført av Gunnar Tank. Arkivsamlingen hadde liten verdi, mente han, blant annet fordi mye av materialet var gjort tilgjengelig gjennom trykte kildeutgaver. Artikkelen bruker Randolph C. Heads begrep arkivalitet for å nyansere denne vurderingen, og argumenterer for at Tank og Andersen representerte historisk ulike forståelser av både arkiv og historieskriving. Tanks referanseramme var den vitenskapelige og kildekritiske historieforskningen i tradisjonen etter Ranke. Andersen på sin side hadde sin forankring i europeisk antikvarianisme. Minneord ved hans død fremstiller ham som et respektert medlem av den lærde republikk og representant for dette fellesskapets idealer, som her beskrives med Lorraine Dastons begrep epistemisk dyd. Artikkelen argumenterer for at det på den ene side dreide seg om lærd praksis og metode, men samtidig kan knyttes opp mot periodens mer spesifikke idealer for borgerdyd.

• Eriksen, Anne (2024). Antiquarian poetry and royal performance. In Johnsen, Emil Nicklas & Stovner, Ina Louise S. (Ed.), Early Modern Genres of History. Routledge. ISSN 9781032364421. p. 13–29. doi: 10.4324/9781003331971-3. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2024). Museene og detaljenes anarki. In Franzén, Elin; Frihammar, Mattias; Hertzberg, Fredrik & Zethson, Michell (Ed.), Detaljer: kulturanalytiska ingångar till de små tingens stora betydelse. Carlsson Bokförlag. ISSN 9789189826243. p. 123–134. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2024). Layers of History. In Frydenlund, Bård; Avelin, Andre Larsen & Hamre, Torleif Rosager (Ed.), Iconic National Monuments. And the Stories We Make Them Tell. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISSN 9788230403297. p. 83–108. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2024). "This Magnificent Pile". The Cathedral of Trindheim from Ruin to Heritage. In Giombini, Lisa & somhegyi, zoltán (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Architectural Reconstruction. Routledge. ISSN 9781032368313. p. 295–309. doi: 10.4324/9781003334200-25. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Today, the cathedral of Trondheim, Norway, is a national symbol of great importance. Reaching back to the 11th century, erected to house the shrine of the christening king St. Olav, it was originally a major pilgrims’ goals in northern Europe. With the Lutheran Reformation in 1537 and the subsequent loss of Norwegian independence, it fell into disrepair. Regained independence in 184 was followed by plans to restore the cathedral. This chapter explores the interconnectedness between approaches to the building in the modern period and shifting ways of thinking about history and time. The aim is to understand how changing understandings of the past, of history, and of time, have conceptualised the material remains of the large building through different lenses of understanding. What difference has it made to consider it an antiquity, a historic monument or conceptualise it as heritage? This chapter explores three turning points in the cathedral’s modern history: its “discovery” as an object of antiquarian interest in the 1760s, the first plans for historical restoration in the 1850s and the work of its present-day restoration workshop, recently inscribed on UNESCO’s Register of Good Preservation Practices.

• Eriksen, Anne (2023). Bare et ritual? Vikinglek, nasjonsbygging og norrøne ritualer i historisk landskap. In Kjus, Audun; Skott, Fredrik; Tolgensbakk, Ida & Österlund-Pötzsch, Susanne (Ed.), Spill med magiske sirkler : En utforskning av lek-ritual-kontinuumet. Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur Uppsala. ISSN 9789187403477. p. 55–70. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Diskusjonen om sammenhengene og forskjellene mellom lek og ritual, er gammel i de kulturvitenskapelige fagene. Her tas forholdet opp til en ny vurdering. Målet er å vise kontrastene så vel som møtepunktene ved å undersøke praksiser som er både/og eller verken/eller. Kapitlene gjør dypdykk i livs- og årshøytider som frierier, russetid, 1. april-spøker og nasjonaldager. De ser på medierte ritualer, vikinglek, lutefiskparader, supporter- og fankulturens lekende rom, og rituell lek eller lekende ritualer i politisk protest så vel som i idrett og underholdning. Forfatterne drøfter tidligere teoretiske bidrag og går i dybden i gammel og ny empiri. De tilbyr et mangfold av innganger, som bør være til nytte for alle som interesserer seg for, studerer eller arbeider med menneskelivets ritualer og det lekende mennesket.

• Eriksen, Anne (2023). Networks of Knowledge: The Quest for Northern Greatness in Early Modern Historiography. In Bonté, Rosalind; Orning, Hans Jacob & Allport, Benjamin (Ed.), Networks in the Medieval North. Studies in Honour of Jón Vidar Sigurdsson. Brepols. ISSN 9782503602387. p. 327–344. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2023). Naturens moralske autoritet. Slagmark. ISSN 0108-8084. 87. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne & Kverndokk, Kyrre (2023). From Risk Semantics to Embodied Practice, Behind the Mask. Vernacular Culture in the Time of Covid.. University Press of Colorado. ISSN 9781646424795. p. 193–210. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne & Kverndokk, Kyrre (2022). Sjanger. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 21(1), p. 3–13. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2022). Mitt skip er lastet med ... Fra rasetenkningens kulturhistorie. In Døving, Cora Alexa (Eds.), Rasisme : Fenomenet, forskningen, erfaringene. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215063065. p. 172–188. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2021). Smoke. smells, and seaweeds in eighteenth century Norway. In Kverndokk, Kyrre; Bjærke, Marit Ruge & Eriksen, Anne (Ed.), Climate Change Temporalities. Explorations in Vernacular, Popular and Scientific Discourse. Routledge. ISSN 9780367479602. p. 141–157. doi: 10.4324/9781003037415. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In 1804, Christen Pram was sent by the Danish-Norwegian government in Copenhagen to investigate the rumours that ash from the burning of kelp along the north-western coast of Norway was causing the climate to change. The chapter follows Pram’s journey and analyses his efforts to understand what was going on. His initial determination was to rely solely on systematic observation and scientific method, but he gradually came to acknowledge the value of the locals’ situated knowledge. The chapter investigates the negotiation of different understandings of nature that ensued and explores the different temporalities intrinsic to the two different types of knowledge.

• Eriksen, Anne (2021). The Intrusiveness of Heritage. Ethnologia Europaea. ISSN 0425-4597. 51(2), p. 1–22. doi: 10.16995/EE.2955. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  While heritage is almost by definition understood as fragile, vulnerable and in need of protection, this article argues that it is also a powerful cultural force in contemporary society. The small community of Borre, south of Oslo in Norway, is used as a case to investigate how heritage has the power to invade and colonise, and how it has the capacity to create new meanings and redefine social relations. A triad of concepts – expansion, intensification and entanglement – is proposed as a tool for investigating these processes. The article argues that heritage processes “devour” the local culture, turning sites, activities and objects into a Viking mode and becoming a dominant key of understanding.

• Kverndokk, Kyrre & Eriksen, Anne (2021). Climate Change Temporalities: Narratives, Genres, and Tropes. In Kverndokk, Kyrre; Bjærke, Marit Ruge & Eriksen, Anne (Ed.), Climate Change Temporalities. Explorations in Vernacular, Popular and Scientific Discourse. Routledge. ISSN 9780367479602. p. 3–14. Full text in Research Archive
• Andersen, Marit Helen; Urstad, Kristin Hjorthaug; Larsen, Marie Hamilton; Engebretsen, Eivind; Ødemark, John & Eriksen, Anne [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). Processes of knowing in the translation of a health communication intervention for dialysis patients awaiting kidney transplantation. Patient Education and Counseling. ISSN 0738-3991. 104(3), p. 1–7. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2020.09.009. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Objective To strengthen patients’ health literacy and their role as active knowledge actors, we developed a health communication intervention including a film-viewing and counselling session for patients awaiting kidney transplantation. We aimed to explore processes of knowing in the translation of the intervention. Methods We applied an ethnographic research approach, observing nine intervention sessions with patients and dialysis nurses. Afterwards, the patients and the nurses were interviewed in-depth. Data were analysed using Engebretsen’s modified version of Lonergans’ four-step model of knowing. Results The following knowing processes were identified: i) Knowing as meaning-making; ii) Knowing as acquiring confidence; and iii) Accessing professionals’ and peer experts’ knowledge. Divergent considerations were taken by the different knowledge actors, which had a direct influence on the knowing processes and knowledge translation. Conclusions The findings support active interactions between patients and healthcare providers in processes of knowing. These include self-conscious approaches and critical questioning in both parties. Practice implications For transplant professionals, this study demonstrates knowing processes in a real-life context. It also spotlights professional skills and attitudes regarding the importance of self-conscious questioning and a critical interrogating position (for both patients and providers).

• Krefting, Ellen Marie & Eriksen, Anne (2020). Formens makt og materialitet. Om studiet av kunnskapsformer i katekismer og skipslogger. Slagmark. ISSN 0108-8084. p. 31–49. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2020). Tradition, Heritage and Time. Ethnologia Europaea. ISSN 0425-4597. 50(1). doi: 10.16995/ee.1998. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2020). Stiklestad - historisk grunn. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 19(2), p. 13–28. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne & Krefting, Ellen Marie (2020). Formens makt og materialitet: Om studiet av kunnskapens former i katekismer og skipslogger. Slagmark. ISSN 0108-8084. 81, p. 31–50. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2020). Smallpox inoculation: translation, transference and transformation. Palgrave Communications. 6. doi: 10.1057/s41599-020-0431-6. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In the early decades of the eighteenth century, small pox inoculation was introduced into northern Europe from the Middle East. The method consisted of grafting infected matter from a person who suffered from smallpox into the arm of one who had not yet been attacked by the disease. The operation usually caused a mild case of illness and protected against further attacks. A series of translations and transformations was involved in the introduction of this new medical treatment. Linguistic and other translational shifts took place. The present article investigates four texts that introduced the new practice to readers in northern Europe, all published in London in the period 1714−1722. Starting out from the general point that translation always will create something new, the article develops the notion of translational bridges: to get the message through, the translator must employ devices or ‘dispositifs’ that connect the source text to the receiving end of the process. Translational bridges make it possible to convey a message across gulfs of potential misunderstandings, non-intellegibility, and chaos. The article shows that the bridge can be made in different ways and make use of different means. The more efficiently this bridge eases the passage of the message, however, the more easily additional meanings will slip over as well. Inoculation was a way of protecting people from a common and often fatal disease. The translations explored in the article show how it also involved issues of gender, religion, social position and ethnicity.

• Eriksen, Anne (2019). History, Exemplarity and Improvements: 18th Century Ideas about Man-Made Climate Change. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. 11(3-4), p. 353–368. doi: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1909302. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Can grain crops be increased? The issue was heatedly debated in 18th century Denmark-Norway, both for patriotic and economic reasons. The historian Gerhard Schøning (1722–80) answered affirmatively. Chopping down much of the forests that covered Norway would change the climate radically for the better. As a consequence of the warmer weather, the fertility of the soil would improve. Crops would increase, and new and even more delicate types of plants could be introduced. Schøning’s argument was nearly entirely built on examples from Greek and Roman history, cited to demonstrate that since classical times, this kind of changes had already taken place in other parts of Europe. Climate interested a number of 18th century writers. It was not only a part of geotheory, but also included in theories about the history of society, law and culture as well as in medical thought. Ideas about a human-made climate change similar to Schøning’s can be found in texts by e.g. Hume and Buffon. The argument relied on a quantity of examples, as well as on the uncontested exemplarity of classical literature itself. Schøning’s examples represent both series and ideals. The cases he cites are numerous (serial) instantiations of the same general mechanism: The effect of human interventions in nature. Yet at the same time they are models to follow, even if it will take some effort. Norway will never be as warm and fertile as southern countries, but Schøning exhorts his compatriots to “take courage and start!” History consisted of examples to learn from and models to follow.

• Eriksen, Anne (2019). Commonplaces, copies, and copiousness. In Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud; Christensen, Hans Dam & Hamran, Olav (Ed.), Museums as Cultures of Copies. The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity. Routledge. ISSN 9780815364917. p. 197–223. doi: 10.4324/9781351106498-18. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2019). Herthadalen, fortidsbruk og historiefag. Historisk Tidsskrift (Danmark). ISSN 0106-4991. 119(1), p. 59–84. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2019). Vikinger, veibygging og verdensarv. Borrehaugene i Vestfold og kulturarvens konsekvenser. Former som formar. Musik, kulturarv och öar. Uppsala universitet. ISSN 9789150627534. p. 145–158. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2019). Fedrelandskjærlighet i oversettelse. Ove Mallings "Store og gode Handlinger af Danske, Norske og Holstenere". In Bjørkøy, Aasta Marie Bjorvand; Hemstad, Ruth Solveig; Nøding, Aina & Rønning, Anne Birgitte (Ed.), Litterære verdensborgere: Transnasjonale perspektiver på norsk bokhistorie 1519–1850. Nasjonalbiblioteket. ISSN 9788279654148. p. 357–376. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2018). Eksemplarisk usedelighet. Eilert Sundts bruk av eksempler i Om sædeligheds-tilstanden (1857). Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 17(1), p. 25–38. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  «Some examples» is the title of the opening chapter of Eilert Sundt’s large work Om sæde- ligheds-tilstanden (1857). Sundt asks whether the examples that he presents – short descrip- tions of his encounters with persons, mainly from the lower rural population, who had child ren born out of wedlock – contain true and reliable information? His own answer is janus-faced. He presents strong arguments for the use of quantitative analyses in social research, but he also starts each of the following chapters of his book with new examples. Assisted by John D. Lyons’ theories about how examples work in texts, this article inves- tigates Sundt’s use of them. Examples are not only introductory anecdotes in his work, to be corrected by the more «scientific» quantitative analysis, as his own words may indicate. Examples are also used to produce pathos, to convey morality, to persuade the readers of Sundt’s interpretations and, perhaps most important of all, to create an image of «the people», the Other, the group that is being subjected to the then new science of sociology.

• Eriksen, Anne (2018). Commonplaces and Simple Truths: Ludvig Holberg's Synopsis Historiae Universalis (1733) and the Tradition of Textbooks. In Jordheim, Helge; Bjørnstad, Hall & regent-susini, anne (Ed.), Universal History and the Making of the Global. Routledge. ISSN 9781138316195. p. 173–190. doi: 10.4324/9780429455810-12. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2017). Time and exemplarity. Journal of Early Modern Studies. 6, p. 183–204. doi: 10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-20394. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The idea of history as magistra vitae – a collection of good and bad examples – was a central topos of historical writing in the West from antiquity till the late eighteenth century. The idea has served a number of different ends, motivating advanced political theory as well as functioning as a mere saying. The article investigates two books of historical examples, written for pedagogical purposes addressing young boys, both explicitly produced with this aim in mind: Johannes Schefferus’ Memorabilium Sueticae gentis exemplorum liber singularis (1671) and Ove Malling’s Store og gode Handlinger af Danske, Norske og Holstenere (1777). They differ considerably from modern history books in not being structured chronologically but according to the virtues the histories are meant to illustrate. The article compares the books’ structure, tables of content, choice of virtues and introductory texts. The aim is to explore the tension between exemplarity and temporality in the two collections.

• Eriksen, Anne (2017). Copies, Concepts and Time. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. 9(1), p. 6–22. doi: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.17916. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Copies are defined by their relation to an original. The understanding and evaluation of this relationship has been changing over time. A main argument of this article is that originals and copies are phenomena with no “natural” or essential meaning outside of their specific historical settings. The idea to be explored is how changing historicity regimes have transformed notions of originals and copies over time and how these differences also are reflected in the intrinsically temporal relation between the two concepts. The discussion will be framed by two theory sets. The first is Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood’s investigation of two kinds of temporality that vied for dominance in works of art in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The second is Walter Benjamin’s discussion of artwork in the “age of mechanical reproduction”, i.e. the twentieth century. The second half of the article seeks to add to the historical complexity described by both theory sets by introducing a concept of tradition and discussing the early modern ideals of exemplarity, emulation and copiousness.

• Eriksen, Anne; Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud & Mo, Gro Bjørnerud (2017). Theorizing Copies. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. 9(1), p. 1–5. doi: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.17911. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2017). Romerske mirakler og kronede madonnabilder. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 16(1), p. 27–40. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In 1792 the engraver P.L.Bombelli published a large collection of pictures and narratives about Roman madonnas that had been adorned with a golden crown. Since the early seventeenth century, such crowns had been distributed annually to images of the Madonna that enjoyed great popularity and were reputed to have worked miracles. The stories were not new when Bombelli published them. His main sources were other books, written for theological and / or antiquarian purposes and many of them in the period of the counterReformation. The article investigates the miracle narratives. What kinds of miracles do the images work, and how are they presented? Particular attention is given to the way everyday detail is used in building up narratives about sudden and extraordinary events breaking with the laws of nature as well as with a normal experience of the world. The argument is that the information about specific Roman topography, social structure and cultural patterns is vital to make the stories credible, as well as to emphasize the exceptional character of the events. The Bakhtinian notion of the chronotope is employed to investigate how the narratives fuse the spatial and the temporal dimension. History – the Roman experience of living in a very ancient city – is a resource in this specific chronotope, endowing Roman landscape and everyday life with a temporal dimension that makes miracles possible.

• Eriksen, Anne (2017). The Medical Periodicals of J.C. Tode and the Idea of Public Health. Scandinavian Journal of History. ISSN 0346-8755. 42(1), p. 28–45. doi: 10.1080/03468755.2016.1204677. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In 1770 ‘Den medicinske Tilskuer’ (The Medical Spectator) was published in Copenhagen. The man behind it was the surgeon, physician and poet Johann Clemens Tode. This was the first of 16 journals in total on health and medicine that Tode was to write, edit and publish until his death in 1806. With his journals, Tode contributed significantly to making health a public issue. This implies conceptualizing health and medicine as reaching beyond the private sphere and individual lives, to rather concerning society at large. To understand the late 18th century, it is equally important to see that the idea of ‘public health’ also implies the existence of a public sphere. The article argues that Tode’s journals contributed to the making of such a public and that he did so by addressing its health. It investigates how the readers and – more generally – the public were staged and produced in Tode’s medical periodicals. The object of investigation is not primarily the medical advice given by Tode as much as the way it is given, the figures or personae that it is given to and the public that it helped to create. The final version of this research has been published in Scandinavian Journal of History. © 2016 Taylor & Francis

• Eriksen, Anne (2016). Advocating Inoculation in the Eighteenth Century: Exemplarity and Quantification. Science in Context. ISSN 0269-8897. 29(2), p. 213–239. doi: 10.1017/S0269889716000028. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2016). Public and Population in S.A.D. Tissot’s Books of Medical Advice (1761–1770). Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. ISSN 0066-8176. 72, p. 85–110. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2016). Antikvarene, tingene og tiden. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. p. 3–7. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2016). Krumsabler, krutt og kanoner. Historiske våpensamlinger og moderne museer. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 15(2), p. 22–36. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2016). Entangled Genealogies. History and the Notion of Tradition. Ethnologia Europaea. ISSN 0425-4597. 46(2), p. 91–105. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2015). How to Study History. Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy and the Heritage of Ars Historia. 1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. ISSN 1652-4772. 12, p. 13–31. doi: 10.7557/4.3523. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne & Selberg, Torunn (2015). The order of folklore: Rachel Busk and the folk-lore of Rome. Folklore. ISSN 0015-587X. 126(3), p. 301–316. doi: 10.1080/0015587X.2015.1068027. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2014). Minneord - Olav Christensen. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 13(3), p. 69–70. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2014). Bautasteiner, monumenter og nasjonale minner. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 13(4), p. 19–31. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2014). Historiebegrep og historiske genre, Historikeren Ludvig Holberg. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISSN 9788230401231. p. 33–59. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2014). Nasjon og museum. Vestfoldminne. ISSN 0504-0590. p. 55–64. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2014). Antikvarianisme på norsk. Iver Wiels beskrivelse over Ringerike og Hallingdalen. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 13(1-2), p. 5–18. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2013). Cure or Protection? The meaning of smallpox inoculation, ca 1750–1775. Medical history. ISSN 0025-7273. 57(4), p. 516–536. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2013.37. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2013). Giants: from Monsters to Ancestors. Analele Universitatii Bucuresti. ISSN 1220-0255. LXI, p. 15–28. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne; Reinton, Ragnhild Evang & Göran, Maria Charlotta (2013). Tingenes tilsynekomster: Historie og estetikk, Tingenes tilsynekomster. Kulturproduksjon, materialitet og estetikk. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270997312. p. 9–24. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2013). Museet og tingene, fremvisning og usynliggjøring, Tingenes tilsynekomster. Kulturproduksjon, materialitet og estetikk. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270997312. p. 169–192. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2013). Edvard Edvardsens Bergensbeskrivelse og den europeiske antikvarianismen. Historisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0018-263X. 92(3), p. 385–404. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2013). Tradisjon og kulturarv, Folkloristikens aktuella utmaningar. Vänbok til Ulf Palmenfelt. Gotland University Press. ISSN 9789186343156. p. 79–96. Full text in Research Archive
• Rogan, Bjarne & Eriksen, Anne (2013). Et sekel kulturhistorie. In Rogan, Bjarne & Eriksen, Anne (Ed.), Etnologi og folkloristikk. En fagkritisk biografi om norsk kulturhistorie. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270997237. p. 9–23. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2013). Making Sense of Europe. In Rogge, Jörg (Eds.), Making Sense as a cultural practice - Historical perspectives. Transcript Verlag. ISSN 9783837625318. p. 93–105. doi: 10.14361/transcript.9783839425312.93. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne & Rønning, Anne Birgitte (2012). Eksemplarisk statskunst og mangfoldig kvinneliv i Ludvig Holbergs heltinnehistorier. In Krefting, Ellen Marie; Eriksen, Anne & Rønning, Anne Birgitte (Ed.), Eksemplets makt. Kjønn, representasjon og autoritet fra antikken til i dag. Spartacus. ISSN 9788230400890. p. 113–145. Full text in Research Archive
• Krefting, Ellen Marie; Eriksen, Anne & Rønning, Anne Birgitte (2012). Eksemplets makt. In Krefting, Ellen Marie; Eriksen, Anne & Rønning, Anne Birgitte (Ed.), Eksemplets makt. Kjønn, representasjon og autoritet fra antikken til i dag. Spartacus. ISSN 9788230400890. p. 9–38. Full text in Research Archive

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• Eriksen, Anne (2024). Borre, Hafrsfjord og Stiklestad. Fortidsformatering fra 1600-tallet til i dag. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISBN 9788230403594. 357 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Kverndokk, Kyrre; Bjærke, Marit Ruge & Eriksen, Anne (2021). Climate Change Temporalities. Explorations in Vernacular, Popular and Scientific Discourse. Routledge. ISBN 9780367479602. 190 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2020). Livets læremester. Historiske kunnskapstradisjoner i Norge 1650-1840. Pax Forlag. ISBN 9788253041841. 336 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2014). From Antiquities to Heritage. Transformations of Cultural Memory. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781782382980. 179 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne; Reinton, Ragnhild Evang & Göran, Maria Charlotta (2013). Tingenes tilsynekomster. Kulturproduksjon, materialitet og estetikk. Novus Forlag. ISBN 9788270997312. 235 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Rogan, Bjarne & Eriksen, Anne (2013). Etnologi og folkloristikk. En fagkritisk biografi om norsk kulturhistorie. Novus Forlag. ISBN 9788270997237. 697 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Selberg, Torunn; Eriksen, Anne & Garnert, Jan (2012). Historien in på livet. Diskussioner om kulturarv och minnespolitik. Nordic Academic Press. ISBN 9789187121029. 277 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2012). Museum. En kulturhistorie. Norsk lyd- og blindeskriftbibliotek. ISBN 9788216116975. 251 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Eriksen, Anne (2025). Bergen Museum 1825. Knowledge for a Public Sphere. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2025). Fartøymodeller – museumsgjenstander eller rekvisitter? Full text in Research Archive
• Krefting, Ellen Marie; Paulsen, Gard & Eriksen, Anne (2025). Records, tables, charts and journals – formats of knowledge and the long history of knowledge and awareness of natural environments. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne & Kverndokk, Kyrre (2025). Introduction to Special Issue. Cultural Analysis. ISSN 2572-0643. 23(2), p. 1–7. doi: https:/www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~culturalanalysis/volume23_2/vol23_2_intro.html. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2024). Formatting the Fisheries. The Society for the Promotion of tne Norwegian Fisheries and its Journal. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2023). Arkiv, samlinger og den nye kunnskapshistorie. Tilfellet Halvor Andersen. Full text in Research Archive
• Kverndokk, Kyrre & Eriksen, Anne (2023). From Risk Semantics to Embodied Practice: The Co-Production of Infection Control Practices in Norway during the Pandemic. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2023). Framing the past - introduction. Full text in Research Archive
• Bäckström, Mattias; Eriksen, Anne & Jensen, Bernard Eric (2022). En läsvärd och gedigen avhandling i gränslandet mellan historiedidaktik och museihistoria. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. p. 141–147. doi: 10.5617/nm.10079. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2021). Kelp and Climate in 18th Century Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2020). Guds vilje i verden. Jonas Ramus' verdenshistorie fra 1706. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2019). Hesitant Heirs and the Intrusiveness of Heritage. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2019). Velmente tanker om korndyrkningens forbedring. Eller: fordelene ved menneskeskapt klimaendring. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2018). Fra Herthadalen til sagnlandet Lejre. Historiebruk, historiefag og reenactments. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2018). Taksonomi eller historieteori? Salongen.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2016). Editorial. The Cultural History of Medicine. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. ISSN 0066-8176. 72, p. 7–10. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2016). Historien som læremester. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2016). Topografisk litteratur. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2016). Å skrive med teori. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2015). Folklore and authority. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2015). Folkloristics and the Heritage Field. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2014). Anmeldelse: En pokkers skrivesyke. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 13(4), p. 76–77. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2013). Folklore and the Sources of Authority. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2013). Historie og metode i Holbergs universalhistorie (1733). Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne & Rønning, Anne Birgitte (2012). Eksemplaritet og kjønn i Heltinnehistoriene. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2012). Health and work in the medical thought of S.A.D.Tissot. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2012). A king and his horse. Glory, memory, eternity. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2012). Ruiner: Estetikk og historie. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2012). Making sense of Europe. Johannes Lilienskiold and his Grand Tour. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Anne (2013). Utviklingen på museumsfeltet. Delrapport til Kulturutredningen 2014 (NOU 2013:3). Regjeringen. Full text in Research Archive

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