Memorialisation in Norrtälje, Mariehamn and Pargas: 1881-1939

The data was collected for 'The Åland Islands Question' - A New Perspective? A comparative study of three burial grounds on Åland, in Finland and in Sweden, an unpublished MA dissertation at the University of Leicester. The data collection comprises a database with details of sizes, shapes and inscription details for 304 memorials and the commemoration details for 440 people from cemeteries in Norrtälje, Sweden (Norrtälje kyrkogård); Mariehamn, Åland, Finland (Mariehamns begavningsplats) and Pargas, Finland (Pargas kyrkogård) from the years 1881 - 1939. In the accompanying files are photographs of each memorial, of the cemeteries and notes on methodology.

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Purpose:

These data were collected for an MA dissertation, in order to explore ideas of Ålandic identity through the material culture of memorialisation, as well as to test the possibilities for Nordic archaeologies of memorialisation.

The XLS file comprises a database covering all three cemeteries. The ZIP file "Database NOR MAR PAR" contains the database in three separate CSV files, one for each cemetery. The remaining ZIP files contain JPG format photographs from the cemeteries in Norrtälje, Mariehamn and Pargas respectively. These photos are downsized versions of the original pictures.

The original photographs can be ordered from SND by e-mail: request[at]snd.gu.se.