Stockholm university
Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies

Seminar: Kyrre Kverndokk

Seminar

Date: Thursday 27 November 2025

Time: 15.00 – 17.00

Location: Accelerator Art Hall

The Green Zone Seminar Autumn 2025 at Accelerator Art Hall.

Kyrre Kverndokk, Bergen. Narrating Transhumance and the more-than-human: Folklore, Sustainability and Heritage.

Abstract
In 2024, Norwegian and Swedish transhumance traditions were inscribed on UNESCOʼs intangible heritage list. This tradition is still alive, yet summer farmers have declined from 52 000 in the middle of the 19th century to less than 750 today. This changing history of transhumance may inform understandings of nature, more-than-human relationships, and sustainable resource management. 

Based on Norwegian transhumance storytelling, this paper will suggest some possible ways of exploring relations between humans, plants, animals, landscapes, and supernatural beings. The presentation will discuss how oral traditions give insight into notions of nature and more-than-human relations, that also include the supernatural. By doing so, it will point out how resource management in the mountains were negotiated through storytelling. Based on this analysis, the presentation will also open for discussions on the following questions: In what way does this traditional notion of resource management correspond with, or differ from contemporary notions of sustainability? And in what way do traditional notions the-more-than-human relations and resource management relate to a heritagized contemporary summer farming culture. 

Last updated: October 7, 2025

Source: Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies

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