Benjamin Raffield
Forskare vid Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia; Arkeologi
- E-post:
- ben.raffield@arkeologi.uu.se
- Besöksadress:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H
- Postadress:
- Box 626
751 26 UPPSALA
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Biografi
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My primary regional and chronological expertise lies in Late Iron Age Scandinavia and early medieval Europe, in particular the study of conflict and military organisation, social structures and networks, political development, and cultural change. Currently, my work focuses on the themes of 1) violence, martial culture, and their impacts on social and political organisation, 2) captivity and slavery, and their links with conflict and state formation, and 3) migration, conflict, and coalescence in cross-cultural and transnational settings. These are explored and articulated primarily through discussions of Late Iron Age society, but with substantial reference to broader, global archaeologies of migration, slavery, conflict, and state formation.
Forskning
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I am currently engaged in a number of research initiatives, including two major projects.
I am currently PI for the project Social Inequality, Structural Violence, and Marginalisation in Viking Age Scandinavia. The aim of the project, funded with a grant of 6.1 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council (2022-25), is to develop an interdisciplinary framework for the identification and study of social inequality in Viking-Age Scandinavia. Drawing on a large corpus of burials from excavated cemeteries in modern-day Sweden, the project mobilises both bioarchaeological and material analyses in order to explore the ways in which social hierarchies and inequality impacted the health and lifeways of different groups within communities.
In addition, I am a partner in the NordForsk-funded project Making a Warrior: The Social Implications of Viking Age Martial Ideologies (2023-26; project lead Dr. Marianne Moen), which aims to critically appraise and redefine the concept of warriorhood in Late Iron Age/Viking Age Scandinavia. The initiative, which involves partners from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland, will adopt an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological, anthropological, historical, and literary perspectives on the life course and social role of warrior groups within the wider milieu of prehistoric Scandinavian society.
Publikationer
Urval av publikationer
- Narratives of inequality (2024)
- Cult Buildings and Ritual Sites (2023)
- Bound in captivity (2022)
- Broken worlds (2021)
- Slavery in Viking Age Scandinavia (2021)
- The Danelaw reconsidered (2020)
- The slave markets of the Viking world (2019)
- Playing Vikings (2019)
Senaste publikationer
- Narratives of inequality (2024)
- Cult Buildings and Ritual Sites (2023)
- Bound in captivity (2022)
- New institutional economics in Viking studies (2022)
- Captifs, traites et marchés (2021)
Alla publikationer
Artiklar
- Narratives of inequality (2024)
- Bound in captivity (2022)
- New institutional economics in Viking studies (2022)
- Broken worlds (2021)
- The Danelaw reconsidered (2020)
- The slave markets of the Viking world (2019)
- Playing Vikings (2019)
- Religious belief and cooperation (2019)
- Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia (2017)
- Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon (2017)