{"title":"Vesa-Pekka Herva","description":"\u003cp\u003eVesa-Pekka Herva’s works explore the intricate connections between ancient cultures and their surrounding environments, offering insightful perspectives on history and cosmology. His writing illuminates the ways in which archaeology can reveal the beliefs, rituals, and worldviews of past societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find a thoughtful blend of historical analysis and cultural interpretation, with a focus on Northern European traditions. These books invite reflection on how human experience and the cosmos have been intertwined throughout history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"northern-archaeology-and-cosmology-by-vesa-pekka-herva-9781138358980","title":"Northern Archaeology and Cosmology","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn its analysis of the archaeologies and histories of the northern fringe of Europe, \u003cem\u003eNorthern Archaeology and Cosmology\u003c\/em\u003e provides a focus on animistic–shamanistic cosmologies and the associated human–environment relations from the Neolithic to modern times. The North has fascinated Europeans throughout history, as an enchanted world of natural and supernatural marvels: a land of light and dark, of northern lights and the midnight sun, of witches and magic, and of riches ranging from amber to oil. Northern lands conflate fantasies and realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRich archaeological, historical, ethnographic and folkloric materials combine in \u003cem\u003eNorthern Archaeology and Cosmology\u003c\/em\u003e with cutting-edge theoretical perspectives drawn from relational ontologies and epistemologies, producing a fresh approach to the prehistory and history of a region that is pivotal to understanding Europe-wide processes, such as Neolithization and modernization. This book examines the mythical and actual northern worlds, with northern relational modes of perceiving and engaging with the world on the one hand and the ‘place’ of the North in European culture on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is an indispensable read for scholars of archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, and folklore in northern Europe, as well as researchers interested in how the North is intertwined with developments in the broader European and Eurasian world. It provides a deep-time understanding of globally topical issues and conflicting interests, as expressed by debates and controversies around Arctic resources, nature preservation, and indigenous rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607298556140,"sku":"9781138358980","price":341.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138358980-northern-archaeology-and-cosmology.jpg?v=1778159832"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/vesa-pekka-herva.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}