Þóra Pétursdóttir
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Publications outside Cristin
2017
Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2017) 'Theory Adrift: The Matter of Archaeological Theorizing'. Journal of Social Archaeology.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2017) 'Climate Change: Archaeology and Anthropocene'. Archaeological Dialogues.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2017) 'Gengið á reka: fornleifafræði mannaldar'. Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags, 2017.
Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2017) 'Sværholt: Poetics of Memory'. In: J. Kaila and J. Knuutila eds. Inside and Beside the Camp. Helsinki: The Academy of Fine Arts, University of Helsinki, pp. 88-95.
2016
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) ‘For love of ruins’. In: T.F. Sørensen and M. Bille eds. Elements of Architecture. London: Routledge.
Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) 'Unruly Heritage: Tracing legacies in the Anthropocene'. Arkæologisk Forum 35, pp. 38-45.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) 'Cold wars and summer night dances'. Review essay of Anna MacWilliams', An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor, Stockholm University, 2013, and Maria Person's, Minnen från vår samtid: Arkeologi, materialitet och samtidshistoria, Gothenburg University, 2014. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/cold-wars-summer-night-dances/
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) 'Hagræðing menningararfs' Vísir 17.03.16. http://www.visir.is/g/2016160318975
2015
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2015) 'Sharing ground' (Reply to Gavin Lucas), Current Swedish Archaeology 23, 67-71.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2015) ‘Die Sorge für Verfallendes: Theoretisierung von materiellem Kulturerbe’. In: P.W. Stockhammer and H.P. Hahn eds. Lost in Things: Fragen an die Welt des Materiellen. Trans. Vanessa Schmidt. Münster: Waxmann, pp. 105-127
2014
Grabowski, R., Olsen, B., Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Witmore, C. (2014) ‘Teillager 6, Sværholt: The archaeology of a POW camp in Finnmark, Arctic Norway', Fennoscandia Archaeologica XXXI, 3-24.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2014) ‘Imaging modern decay: the aesthetics of ruin photography’, Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 1(1): 7-56.
Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2014) ‘Sarnes Internat: archaeological aesthetics’ [a photo essay], Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 1(1): 57-72.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2014) ‘Things-out-of-hand: the aesthetics of abandonment’, in B. Olsen and Þ. Pétursdóttir (eds.) Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, Routledge, pp. 335-364.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2014) ‘An archaeology of ruins’, in B. Olsen and Þ. Pétursdóttir (eds.) Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, Routledge, pp.3-29.
Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (eds.) (2014) Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, Routledge.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2014) ‘Modern ruins: remembrance, resistance and ruin value’, in P.R. Mullins and J. Schofield (eds.) Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology: Archaeology in the Modern World, Springer.
2013
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2013) ‘Lagerhúsið við síldarstöðina á Eyri í Ingólfsfirði – Ljósmyndaþáttur’ [The Storage house at the Eyri herring station in Ingólfsfjörður – a photo essay], Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifaféags 2013.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2013) Concrete matters: towards an archaeology of things, PhD Thesis University of Tromsø, Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology. Accessible at: http://munin.uit.no/handle/10037/5508
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2013) ‘Concrete matters: ruins of modernity and the things called heritage’, Journal of Social Archaeology 13(1): 31-53.
2012
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Small things forgotten now included, or what else do things deseve?’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16(3): 577-603.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Material memories among pre-Christian graves in Iceland’, in Ragnhild Berge, Marek E. Jasinski and Kalle Sognnes (eds.) N-TAG Ten: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009, British Archaeological Reports International Series 2399, pp. 31-39, Oxford: Archaeopress.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Fé og frændur í eina gröf: Hugleiðingar um kuml og greftrun í íslensku samhengi’ [‘Fé and frændr in one grave: pre Christian grave customs in Iceland’], Ólafía: Rit Fornleifafræðingafélags Íslands, 4: 139-162.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Sagan af klaustrinu á Skriðu’ [Book review], Saga L(2): 177-181.
2011
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Kuml’ [‘Pre-Christian graves’], in Birna Lárusdóttir (ed.) Mannvist: Sýnisbók íslenskra fornleifa, pp. 54-71, Reykjavík: Opna.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Nýminjar: (Forn)leifar og (forn)leifafræði’ [‘Archaeology of the contemporary past’], in Birna Lárusdóttir (ed.) Mannvist: Sýnisbók íslenskra fornleifa, pp. 424-433. Reykjavík: Opna.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Grafist fyrir um mannvirkin í Arnarbæli við Selfljót: Af niðurstöðum rannsókna haustið 2010’ [‘Structures at Arnarbæli by Selfjót investigated: Results from archaeological excavations in autumn 2010’], Múlaþing 37: 35-43.
Hermannsdóttir, Á. og Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Fornleifaskráning á Öxi’ [‘Archaeological survey on Öxi’], Múlaþing 37: 127-135.
2010
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2010) ‘Nokkur orð í belg um íslenska kumlhesta’ [‘Considering Icelandic horse burials’], Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags 2010: 185-209.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2010) ‘Endurfundir: Fornleifarannsóknir styrktar af Kristnihátíðarsjóði 2001-2005’ [Book review], Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags 2010, 227-232.
2009
Pétursdóttir (2009) ‘Icelandic Viking age graves: lack in material – lack of interpretation”, Archaeologia Islandica 7: 22-40.
2008
Jóhannesdóttir, S. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. Fornleifaskóli barnanna. Árbók Þingeyinga, pp. 25-30.
2007
Þóra Pétursdóttir (2007) “Deyr fé, deyja frændr”. Re-animating mortuary remains from Viking Age Iceland, MA Thesis, University of Tromsø, Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology. Accessible at : http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/bitstream/10037/1165/3/thesis.pdf
2005
Þóra Pétursdóttir (2005) “Minjar sem hverfa…” [‘Archaeological remains under threat…’], Múlaþing 32: 47-68.
Research interests
Archaeology of the contemporary past, archaeological theory, material culture and thing theory