Buildings as persons: Relationality and the life of buildings in a northern periphery of early modern Sweden

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 324, 2010, Pages 440-452

  Herva, Vesa Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bothnia; Buildings; Early modern period; Finland; Household; Seventeenth century; Shamanism; Spirituality; Sweden; Tornio

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953644083     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00066692     Document Type: Article

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