Bjørnar Olsen

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Bjørnar Olsen

Anthropology

#1514

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#1973

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Archeology

#492

World Rank

#687

Historical Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Bjørnar Julius Olsen is professor at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. He is a Norwegian archaeologist who specializes in archaeological theory, material culture, museology, northern/Arctic archaeology, and contemporary archaeology. Olsen is a prominent figure in the turn to things in humanities and social sciences, including symmetrical archaeology.

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Bjørnar Olsen's Published Works

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Material culture after text: re‐membering things (2003) (428)
In Defense of Things: Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects (2010) (341)
Archaeology: The Discipline of Things (2012) (236)
Keeping things at arm's length: a genealogy of asymmetry (2007) (100)
Hunters in Transition: An Outline of Early Sámi History (2013) (89)
Hermeneutics and Archaeology: On the Philosophy of Contextual Archaeology (1992) (82)
Ruin Memories : Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (2014) (58)
Archaeology, symmetry and the ontology of things. A response to critics (2015) (55)
Theory adrift: The matter of archaeological theorizing (2018) (43)
Scenes from a Troubled Engagement: Post-Structuralism and Material Culture Studies (2006) (40)
Comments on Saamis, Finns and Scandinavians in history and prehistory (1985) (39)
Imaging Modern Decay: The Aesthetics of Ruin Photography (2014) (38)
An archaeology of ruins (2014) (29)
Norwegian archaeology and the people without (pre-)history: Or how to create a myth of a uniform past (1986) (22)
After Interpretation: Remembering Archaeology (2021) (21)
Ethnicity in anthropological and archaeological research: a Norwegian-Polish perspective / Bjornar Olsen, Zbigniew Kobyliński. (1991) (20)
Reclaiming Things: An Archaeology of Matter (2013) (19)
Saqqaq housing and settlement in southern Disko Bay, West Greenland (1998) (15)
Stability and change in Saami Band structure in the Varanger area of Arctic Norway, AD 1300–1700 (1987) (14)
Belligerent Chieftains and Oppressed Hunters? Changing Conceptions of Interethnic Relationships in Northern Norway during the Iron Age and Early Medieval Period (2003) (14)
Perceiving rock art : social and political perspectives : ACRA, the Alta Conference on Rock Art (1995) (11)
Archaeology, hermeneutics of suspicion and phenomenological trivialization (2006) (9)
(In)significantly Soviet: the heritage of Teriberka (2020) (8)
Teillager 6 Sværholt : The Archaeology of a World War II Prisoner of War Camp in Finnmark, Arctic Norway (2014) (8)
Interaction between hunter-gatheres and farmers : ethnographical and archaeological perspectives (1988) (5)
Interaction between hunter-gatherers and farmers : ethnographical and archaeological perspectives / Bjørnar Olsen. (1988) (5)
Sarnes Internat: Archaeological Aesthetics (2014) (3)
The return of what (2013) (3)
Archaeological Theory, Christmas Pork and Red Herrings: Reply to Comments (2021) (3)
Creating prehistory: Archeology museums and the discource of modernism (1970) (3)
Comments on archaeology into the 1990s (1989) (3)
40 Years of Theoretical Engagement: A Conversation with Ian Hodder (2008) (2)
When Defense Is Not Enough: On Things, Archaeological Theory, and the Politics of Misrepresentation (2021) (2)
After Discourse (2020) (2)
Manker’s list. Museum collections in the era of deaccessioning and disposal (2018) (2)
Writing things after discourse (2020) (1)
Engagements with Thing (2012) (1)
Modern Ruins: Remembrance, Resistance, and Ruin Value (2020) (1)
Table of Relations (2014) (1)
Review Articles : Blurred Genres? Archaeological Contemporaries in Theory (1998) (1)
Getting on with Things (2012) (1)
4 Colonization, Contacts and Change, 1200–1550 (2014) (0)
Things in Translation (2012) (0)
Futures for Things (2012) (0)
The Case Study in Archaeological Theory (2022) (0)
Modern Ruins: Revealing the Other Face of Things (2013) (0)
Returning to Ruin Photography (2014) (0)
The Ambiguity of Things (2012) (0)
6 Missionaries and Shamans: Sámi Religion and the Campaign Against it (2014) (0)
Reply to Comments (2013) (0)
Det arkeologiske museum. Momenter til en kritikk (2016) (0)
The sacred sites of the Scandinavian Saamis (2000) (0)
3 Economic Specialization and Ethnic Consolidation: Northern Hunting Societies in the Iron Age and Early Middle Ages (2014) (0)
EXCAVATING WAR AND IDLENESS: THE CASE OF SVÆRHOLT (2022) (0)
Making and the Design of Things (2012) (0)
5 State Integration and Sámi Rights ca. 1550–1750 (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (2005) (0)
ISKOS 22. IN SEARCH OF HEARTHS – MEMORIAL BOOK FOR SVEN-DONALD HEDMAN (2020) (0)
Homo Oeconomicus versus Homo Symbolicus : reply to comments by A. J. Tomaszewski and P. Urbańczyk (1988) (0)
Review - Si n Jones: The Archaeology of Ethnicity. Constructing Identities in the Past and Present (1999) (0)
Comments on spatial patterns in intra‐site analysis—an interpretative perspective (1997) (0)
Editorial board (2001) (0)
Editorial board (2000) (0)
Index of Place Names (2013) (0)
Editorial board (2001) (0)
Living With Ghosts? (2022) (0)
Editorial board (2000) (0)
Index of Personal Names (2014) (0)
2 Changing Views on the Origins of the Sámi (2014) (0)

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University of Tromsø