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With a focus on S?pmi - the transcultural and transnational homeland of the S?mi people - this book presents case studies and theoretical frameworks which explore the ways in which memory institutions such as museums, archives, and festivals participate in and guide processes of appropriation, decolonization, and memory-making.
The destruction and concealment of S?mi objects in both private and museum collections worldwide have impacted S?mi knowledge systems, disrupting local ways of knowing. Appreciation and reappropriation are important acts of decolonization which seek to create openings for reconnection to traditions, languages, and practices that were forcibly suppressed in the past. Western memory institutions such as museums, archives, and galleries have had a great impact on how heritage has been collected, stored, conserved, and organized within closed walls and glass cases. As the new museology movement developed in the 1990s, numerous examples revealed how difficult it became for researchers and public alike to access heritage. Considering the proliferation of cultural interventions and the growth of S?mi mobilization, which calls into question assumptions about how best to activate and experience S?mi cultural heritage and what constitutes appropriate stewardship, this book sheds light on initiatives to return artefacts to the S?mi community. With particular attention to the ways in which S?mi self-determination and the shifting boundaries between Indigenous and settler identities are articulated, challenged, and renegotiated, it draws on approaches from critical museology and Indigenous methodologies to explore the initiation, experience, and operationalizing of restitution projects.
This book will therefore appeal to scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and museum and heritage studies, as well as to those interested in questions of repatriation, restitution, and healing processes.
Trude Fonneland is a professor of cultural studies at UiT The Arctic University Museum of Norway. Her research interests include S?mi cultural heritage, museology, and contemporary shamanism. She is co-author of S?mi Religion: Religious Identities, Practices, and Dynamics (2020) and Shamanic Materialities in Nordic Climates (2023).
Rossella Ragazzi is an associate professor of museum and media anthropology at UiT The Arctic University Museum of Norway. Her current research interests explore critial theories of heritage within S?mi museums. She is the author of Walking on Uneven Paths: The Transcultural Experience of Children entering Europe in the Years 2000 (2009) and has co-edited two volumes of Nordic Museologi, focusing on S?mi Museums heritage and museums.
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