From Lapland to Sápmi : collecting and returning Sámi craft and culture / Barbara Sjoholm.

Main entry:

Sjoholm, Barbara, 1950- author.

Title & Author:

From Lapland to Sápmi : collecting and returning Sámi craft and culture / Barbara Sjoholm.

Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
©2023

Description:

xxi, 344 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Map of Sápmi and Scandinavia -- Sápmi's geography and languages -- Introduction -- Lapponia -- Curiosity cabinets -- The Magic drum -- Mr. Bullock's exhibition of Laplanders -- A model prisoner -- Autumn migration in Lule Lapmark -- Razzias -- The Lappish department -- Making histories -- Roots and spirals -- Wax cylinders, Sámi voices -- Opening the blue chest -- Recentering: Sweden -- Returning: Norway -- Recollecting: Sápmi -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

"The story of the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia unfolds across borders and centuries, in museums and private collections. Deftly written and amply illustrated, From Lapland to Sápmi brings to light the history of collecting, displaying, and returning Sámi material culture, as well as the story of Sámi creativity and individual and collective agency"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781517911973 hardcover
1517911974 hardcover

Subject:

Sami (European people) Material culture.
Sami (European people) Social life and customs.
Folk art, Sami.
Sami (European people) Material culture Collectors and collecting.
Sami (European people) Material culture Collection and preservation.
Samis Culture matérielle.
Samis Mœurs et coutumes.
Art populaire sami.
Samis Culture matérielle Collectionneurs et collections.
Samis Culture matérielle Collections et conservation.
HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries.
Civilization
Manners and customs
Lapland Civilization.
Lapland Social life and customs.
Laponie (Région) Civilisation.
Laponie (Région) Mœurs et coutumes.
Europe Lapland

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Location: Library main 317646
Call No.: 317646
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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