Publications

(Updated: May 2023. Please contact me if you are interested in any of my publications. Some can be downloaded from my academia.edu page)

Monographs
Eriksen, Marianne Hem in prep. Ritual violence and the Vikings. An archaeology of harm and care. Short monograph under contract with Cambridge Elements in Ritual and Violence. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Eriksen, Marianne Hem 2019 Architecture, Society and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia: Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Edited volumes
2023  Vikings in the Mediterranean. Edited by N. Price, M.H. Eriksen, and C. Janke. The Norwegian Institute in Athens.

2020    Contrasts of The Bronze Age: Time, Trajectories and Encounters in the Nordic World. Essays in honour of Christopher Prescott. Edited by K.I. Austvoll, M.H. Eriksen, P.D. Fredriksen, A.L. Melheim, L. Prøsch-Danielsen and L. Skogstrand.

2015 Viking Worlds. Things, spaces, and movement. Edited by Eriksen, Marianne Hem, Unn Pedersen, Bernt Rundberget, Irmelin Axelsen and Heidi Berg. Oxbow, Oxford.
—> Paperback edition March 2019

Peer-reviewed journal articles
Eriksen, M.H. 2022 Body-worldings of later Scandinavian prehistory: making oddkin with two body-objects. Current Swedish Archaeology 30 (2022):65-94

Eriksen, M.H. and K. Kay 2022 Reflections on posthuman ethics. Grievability and the more-than-human worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal FirstView [Open Access]

Eriksen, M.H. 2020 ‘Body-objects’ and personhood in the Iron and Viking Ages: Processing, curating, and depositing skulls in settlements. World Archaeology 52(1):103-119 [Open access]

Eriksen, M.H. 2017 Don’t all mothers love their children? Deposited infants as animate objects in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. World Archaeology 49(3):338-356.

Eriksen, M.H. 2016 Commemorating Dwelling. The Death and Burial of Houses in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia (Accepted Manuscript) European Journal of Archaeology 19(3):477-496. [Link to final version at EJA].

Eriksen, M.H. 2016 Den enes død er den annens brød? Om kropp, mat og dødsforestillinger i skandinavisk jernalder. [One’s death, another’s bread? On body, food and concepts of death in Iron Age Scandinavia]. Arr – Idéhistorisk tidsskrift, 2016(2):49-59.

Eriksen, M.H. 2013 Doors to the dead: The power of doorways and thresholds in Viking Age Scandinavia. Archaeological Dialogues, 20(2), 187-214. [Copyright of this article belongs to Cambridge University Press, and is published here in accordance with point 1.3. in the Copyright Agreement. Journal webpage.]

Peer-reviewed book chapters
Kay, K. & M.H. Eriksen forthcoming Mapping collaborations: working in the contact zone of posthumanism and gender archaeology. In Current Archaeological Debates from the Perspective of Gender Archaeology, edited by B. Gaydarska et al. Forthcoming with Springer.

Eriksen, M.H. & C. Ratican forthcoming Multispecies Vikings: Animals, people, and cyborgs in the Late Iron and Viking Ages. In The Routledge Handbook of Death and Burial in the Viking Age, edited by Alison Klevnäs & Cecilia Ljung. Forthcoming with Routledge, London/New York.

Eriksen, M.H. in press/2023 Of bodies and buildings: Rituals in the halls of the Vikings. In The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World, edited by L. Gardeła, S. Bønding and P. Penz. Forthcoming with Oxbow, Oxford.

Eriksen, M.H. in press/2023 Houses as technology in the Viking Age and beyond. Invited chapter in: A Cultural History of Technology, edited by R. Magnusson, J. Alexander, A. Bix, S. Moon, W. Storey. Bloomsbury Academic, London.

K.I. Austvoll, M.H. Eriksen, P.D. Fredriksen, A.L. Melheim, L. Prøsch-Danielsen and L. Skogstrand 2020 Time, Ritual, and Encounters in the Nordic World. In: Contrasts of The Bronze Age: Time, Trajectories and Encounters in the Nordic World. Essays in honour of Christopher Prescott. Edited by K.I. Austvoll, M.H. Eriksen, P.D. Fredriksen, A.L. Melheim, L. Prøsch-Danielsen and L. Skogstrand, pp. 15-25. Brepols, Turnhout.

Eriksen, M.H and K.I. Austvoll 2020 Bridging Perspectives: Social Dynamics of Houses and Households in Bronze Age Scandinavia. In Contrasts of The Nordic Bronze Age: Essays in honour of Christopher Prescott, edited by K.I. Austvoll, A.L. Melheim, M.H. Eriksen, P.D. Fredriksen, L. Skogstrand and L- Prøsch-Danielsen. Brepols, Turnhout.

Eriksen, M.H. 2020 Dream-houses of the Late Iron and Viking Ages: The house and the self. In: Re-imagining Periphery: Archaeology and text in northern Europe from Iron Age to Viking- and Early Medieval periods, edited by K. Ilves and C. Hillerdal. Oxbow, Oxford. (Posted with publishers’ written permission)

Eriksen, M.H. 2018  Embodied regulations. Searching for boundaries in the Viking Age. In Archaeologies of Rules and Regulations: Between text and practice, edited by B.Hausmair, B.Jervis, R.Nugent and E.Williams. Berghan, Oxford/New York.

Eriksen, M.H. 2015 The Power of the Ring. Door rings, oath rings, and the sacral place. In Viking Worlds. Things, movement, and spaces, edited by M.H. Eriksen, U. Pedersen, B. Rundberget, I. Axelsen and H. Berg, pp. 73–87. Oxbow, Oxford.

Eriksen, M.H. 2014 Frihetens port. En reise gjennom fortidens dører. In Ja, vi elsker frihet, edited by S. Gullbekk, pp. 304–310. Dreyer, Oslo.

TV & radio, press
I am a 2023 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. I have appeared on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 3, NRK1, NRK2, NRK (television), TV2 (television), Smithsonian Channel, and others.

My research has been featured in Newsweek, The Conversation, Morgenbladet, NRK, Nordic Science, and many other outlets.