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KARIN SANDERS
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List of Illustrations ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
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Notes 235
Bibliography 283
Index 299
| ILLUSTRATIONS
The seed for this study was planted decades ago. In 1965 the Danish archae-
ologist P. V. Glob published Mosefolket (The Bog People) and I remember find-
ing a copy of the book in my primary school library outside Copenhagen. The
thrill of reading about the uniquely preserved human beings in the peat bogs
of northwestern Europe and the powerful effect of the black and white photo-
graphs of faces, feet, and hands from these ancient yet seemingly contempo-
rary people made me ponder whether I too should become an archaeologist.
The realness of the bodies combined with an aura of mystery—even if it was
of a rather melancholic and sometimes frightening kind—took me on many
imaginary time travels.
Eventually my interests in literature and the arts won out over my fas-
cination with archaeology, and I started digging out the past as a literary
scholar. But the lure of archaeology and my interest in bog bodies have lin-
gered through the years. The Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s bog poems, from
Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975), reopened the door to archaeology
for me and provided a bridge between the world of words and that of ma-
terial remains. Heaney’s poems on Tollund Man and other bog bodies made
Glob’s book present and familiar again, and caused me to revisit The Bog People
(this time in its 1969 English translation). I discovered that Heaney and Glob
were not the only ones who had searched these ancient faces and bodies for
arsenals of archaeological tropes to be used in literature or visual art. The ros-
[ xiv J Preface and Acknowledgments
see bog bodies as unique go-betweens on many fronts, straddling not only the
binaries of time and space, past and present, text and image, and ethics and
aesthetics, but also the disciplinary boundaries between archaeology, history,
literary studies, and art history.
Throughout this book I center on how the material body is negotiated
when it “ruptures” time and space. I show how, when the past is seen in the
form of archaeological material, the value given to it is inevitably wedded to
its ability to serve as authentic testimony. To see something, or to touch some-
thing, is presented as authentic precisely because the senses seem to allow for
transparent and direct access to knowledge about the object at hand. The au-
thentic in archaeology is, after all, a promise of closeness to what is historically
far removed. All of the examples discussed in this book, then, have at least one
common denominator: they all in one way or another negotiate the pressure
of the bog bodies’ material presence. This pressure, which is also a pressure
from the past, gives urgency to the reality of the physical body—to the poetic
and artistic mind, to the hand that writes or sculpts or paints. The “stubborn”
materiality of the body’s corporeal existence is often vividly confronted with
the material resistance offered by each medium’s own particularity, be it can-
vas, clay, wood, bronze, or words. Since bog bodies are in some sense born as
scientific specimens, museum pieces, and preserved artifacts so different from
what they once were, they are estranged from us even as they mirror us. It is
precisely this combined identification and estrangement that gives bog bod-
ies (and other mummified human remains, for that matter) a valence that is
different than that of other archaeological objects. If we project human traits
onto material artifacts that already exhibit—or seem to inhabit—those same
traits, our projections are caught in the paradox of their very existence. Bog
bodies are both inanimate objects and human beings.
I argue that bog bodies gain mutable identities in their complicated and
sometimes boisterous afterlife. My intention is to consider fundamental ques-
tions about culture and humanity—heritage, origin, nationality, genetics, eth-
nicity, and gender—by way of bog bodies. I show that while the archaeological
imagination situates and actualizes the bodies’ humanness and historicity by
use of display strategies, photography, rhetorical gestures, and so forth, their
situatedness and actualization stipulate sensitivity to and negotiation of the
fuzzy boundaries that the bodies have to navigate in their travels through time
and space: their imagined morphing from being persons to becoming things,
and conversely from being things to becoming persons.
In this process, as we shall see, almost all bog bodies discussed here regain
personal-pronoun attributes. In a kind of transposing of the body to its lin-
guistic equivalent, “it” becomes once more “he” or “she.” Behind this drive to
[ xvi J Preface and Acknowledgments
humanize is then a drive to see humanity as both singular and universal, to see
the bog bodies both as gendered individuals and as human beings in abstract
terms. No one has expressed this with more acumen than Seamus Heaney
when he brings the material past up close and makes it personal as he describes
the kind of reanimation, but also loss of identity, that happens on the level of
personal pronouns:
Once upon a time, these heads and limbs existed in order to express and
embody the needs and impulses of an individual human life. They were the
vehicles of different biographies and they compelled singular attention,
they proclaimed “I am I.” Even when they were first dead, at the moment of
sacrifice or atrocity, their bodies and their limbs manifested biography and
conserved vestiges of personal identity: they were corpses. But when a corpse
becomes a bog body, the personal identity drops away; the bog body does
not proclaim “I am I”; instead it says something like “I am it” or “I am you.”
Like the work ofart, the bog body asks to be contemplated; it eludes the
biographical and enters the realm ofthe aesthetic.*
The plethora of material on bog bodies in the “realm of the aesthetic” —the
volume of which far exceeded my expectations when I first embarked on this
project—takes such diverse shapes and forms that it has been a challenge to
house it on the pages of one study. I have therefore had to make necessary
selections. Not all poems on bog bodies are included; not all novels, nor all
visual art or museum displays. Whenever possible I have chosen works that
are representative of each chapter’s specific concerns: the ethics of display, the
uncanny, erotica, politics, and so forth. At the same time I have strived to hold
onto the multifaceted corpus of texts and have allowed each chapter to unfold
the different peculiarities of the material.
Ultimately, as should be apparent when we come to the end of this study,
in spite of the heterogeneity in bog body representations we will find two fun-
damental tenets at play throughout the material. One concerns time and the
ruptures and reverberations that come with untimely reappearances of dead
bodies; the other concerns the ethics ofaestheticizing human remains from an
ancient past. The bodies represent our humanity—and inhumanity. Reconnec-
tion with the past is frequently intended to stabilize the present. Yet bog bodies,
uncanny and liminal, more often than not refuse to be constant; indeed, they
destabilize. “We stand face-to-face with our ancestors,” claimed Glob. Other
archacologists have called the bodies “silent witnesses”’ or claimed that they
“open a window to the past, through which we see things we would otherwise
seldom see.”' To be face-to-face with silent witnesses who can open windows
Preface and Acknowledgments [ xvii ]
to the past is no small matter. As we shall see, these witnesses are far from si-
lent; they speak volumes across time. In fact bog bodies, I have discovered, pre-
sent a particularly rich opportunity to investigate a familiar unfamiliarity with
human beings from the past. They allow us to see a “spectacle of human activ-
ity,’ to borrow a phrase from Marc Bloch, full of twists and turns—a complex
ethical and aesthetic “quagmire” from which we can pull information about
literature, art, and archaeology that goes well beyond that of the bog bodies
themselves.
In my exploration of the various forms bog bodies take in literature
and visual representation, I have found myself immersed in a sort of cross-
disciplinary traveling that resembles what Mieke Bal has outlined in her book
Traveling Concepts in the Humanities. She proposes that a cultural analysis must
find its “basis in concepts rather than methods.” The object of cultural analysis,
she goes on to say, often changes in the process, so that “after returning from
our travels, the object constructed turns out to no longer be the ‘thing’ that so
fascinated you when you chose it. It has become a living creature, embedded
in all the questions and considerations that the mud of your travel spattered
onto it, and that surround it like a ‘field?”® Bal’s expression, that “it has become
a living creature,” has of course a particular kind of irony when we speak of bog
bodies. But the point she makes—that the object at hand becomes animated
and malleable when looked at through the concepts of cultural analysis, and
not through one particular or inherent methodology—resonates with my own
experience of traveling the muddy fields and “digging” out bog bodies.
In The Bog People, Glob was sensitive to the peculiar time factor in rela-
tion to writing, publishing, and doing research on archaeological bodies.
He calls his book a “long letter” written for a group of fifteen young English
schoolgirls—Veronica, Catherine, Elizabeth, Prudence, etc.—who had con-
tacted him asking for more information on bog bodies, and also for his own
daughter, who was the same age. As he signs off with an elegant gesture toward
the past, the present, and a possible future, the conclusion of his preface ech-
oes ingeniously the very themes of his book and the time it took to complete
his work with it:
But I have all too little time, so that it has taken me a long time to finish my
letter. However, here it is. You have all grown older and so perhaps are now
all the better able to understand what I have written about these bog people
of two thousand years ago. Yours Sincerely P.V. Glob, August 13", 1964.’
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