Idioms of Sámi health and healing / Barbara Helen Miller, editor ; Earl Waugh, series editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Barbara Helen, 1949- editor.

Series:

Patterns of Northern traditional healing series ; v. 2.

Patterns of Northern traditional healing series ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sami (European people)--Medicine--Europe, Northern.

Sami (European people).

Sami (European people)--Health and hygiene--Europe, Northern.

Healing--Europe, Northern.

Healing.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2016.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : Polynya Press, an imprint of The University of Alberta Press, [2015]

Summary:

"The Sámi--indigenous people of northernmost Europe--have relied on traditional healing methods throughout the ages. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and demonstrates the effectiveness of using the resources of local communities. The second volume in the Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing series, this collection by ten experts also records how ancient healing traditions and modern health care systems worked and sometimes competed to provide solutions for local problems. Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing is one of the first English-language studies of theses topics, and offers valuable insight and academic context to those in the fields of anthropology, medical anthropology, transcultural psychiatry, and circumpolar studies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Barbara Helen Miller

1 Constituting Scholarly Versions of a "Sami Folk Medicine" Research Practices in the Colonial Contact Zone / Stein R. Mathisen

2 Secrecy in Sami Traditional Healing / Anne Karen Haetta

3 Traditional Sami Healing Heritage and Gifts of Grace / Marit Myrvoll

4 Dynamics of Naming Examples from Porsanger / Barbara Helen Miller

5 Multiple Views from Finnmark / Kjell Birkely Andersen, Sigvald Persen, and Barbara Helen Miller

6 "Suffering in Body and Soul" Lived Life and Experiences of Local Food Change in the Russian Arctic / Trine Kvitberg

7 The Paradox of Home Understanding Northern Troms as a Therapeutic Landscape / Mona Anita Kiil

8 Keeping Doors Open Everyday Life Between Knowledge Systems in the Markebygd Areas / Randi Nymo

9 Gifts of Dreams Connecting to Sami Epistemic Practice / Britt Kramvig.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-77212-106-1

1-77212-104-5

OCLC:

921572610