Sacred, Forgotten and Remembered – Forgotten Sacred Places in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland
Author(s): Titta Kallio-Seppä; Terhi T. Tanska
Year: 2016
Summary
In this paper we discuss how sacred places in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland lost their sacred meanings. Churches and graveyards in the early 17th century town of Oulu and 14th to early 17th century rural Ii were destroyed, forgotten and eventually turned into part of secular residential areas. Consequently the social memory of these places changes over time, becoming forgotten, then erroneously remembered, and finally rediscovered and brought to public attention by archaeologists. Archaeological material, cartographical sources, and oral and written traditions are used as source material to reveal the changes in social memory of the places.
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Sacred, Forgotten and Remembered – Forgotten Sacred Places in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. Titta Kallio-Seppä, Terhi T. Tanska. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434939)
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Keywords
General
Finland
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Memory
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sacred
Geographic Keywords
Finland
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
14th to 17th century
Spatial Coverage
min long: 19.648; min lat: 59.807 ; max long: 31.582; max lat: 70.089 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 266