Haunting heritage in an enchanted land: Magic, materiality and second world war German material heritage in Finnish Lapland

Journal of Contemporary Archaeology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 297-321

  Herva, Vesa Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Haunting; Lapland; Magic; Military material culture; Relational thinking; Second World War

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995382854     PISSN: 20513429     EISSN: 20513437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/jca.v1i2.18639     Document Type: Article

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