Terje Östigård
terje.ostigard@arkeologi.uu.se
Throughout my career I have been working cross-culturally, comparatively and
inter-disciplinary and I have conducted fieldworks in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Jordan, India, Nepal, Palestine, Tanzania and Uganda. Before doing research in Africa, I studied cremation and life-giving waters in Nepal and India during my MA (1998) and PhD (2004) -education.
An ecology and cosmology of water, weather and winter
My current project focuses on water, weather and the winter in the cold north – or the Nordic agricultural societies and ritual practices. Throughout the world, the main seasonal rituals and sacrifices aim to engage with the divinities controlling the natural forces of cosmos. The changing water-worlds in the Nordic countries have determined the agricultural seasons, and societies’ success and failures, and the rich ethnography and folklore is used as an empirical and methodological entrance opening up this prehistoric world of ecological realities.
Personal webpage: www.oestigaard.com
Publications
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Det store ritualet: Kremasjon, konstruksjon og konsumpsjon
Part of Bronsålderns Håga, p. 13-36, 2022.
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Sacrifice: Theories and Rituals in Nepal
Uppsala University, 2022.
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Divine waters in Ethiopia:: The source from heaven and indigenous water-worlds in the Lake Tana region
Part of Sacred Waters, p. 141-147, 2020.
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Smihellere i Nesset og Rauma.
Part of Romsdal Sogelag Årsskrift 2020 (84 årgang), p. 166-179, 2020.
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The Great Indo-European Horse Sacrifice: 4000 Years of Cosmological Continuity from Sintashta and the Steppe to Scandinavian Skeid
Uppsala universitet, 2020.
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The Medicine of Belief: Health from the Viking Age and Onwards
Part of Culturally Modified, 2020.
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Water from stone: archaeology and conservation at Florida's springs
Part of Antiquity, p. 549-551, 2018.
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Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism: Comparative Cosmologies and Centuries of Cosmic Consumption
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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[Review of:] Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context
Part of Norwegian Archaeological Review, p. 53-55, 2015.
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