Browsing Kulturhistorisk museum by Author "Walsh, Matthew"

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  • Human sacrifice and value 
    Løvschal, Mette; Gullbekk, Svein Harald; Johansen, Mette-Louise; O'Neill, Sean; Walsh, Matthew; Willerslev, Rane (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Human sacrifice is a well-attested and much mythologised phenomenon of human society, but what constitutes human sacrifice? Why is socially sanctioned violence considered sacrifice? And why are human lives sacrificed? New ...
  • Under the Skin: Norwegian Bog Skeletons and Perceptions of Personhood, Value, and Sacrifice 
    Moen, Marianne; Walsh, Matthew (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The authors set a relatively small and little-known corpus of human remains recovered from Iron Age wetland contexts in Norway in a wider theoretical framework of sacrifice and personhood. The material studied, fragmentary ...