Memory Institutions and Sámi Heritage : Decolonisation, Restitution, and Rematriation in Sápmi / Trude Fonneland, Rossella Ragazzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fonneland, Trude, author.

Ragazzi, Rossella, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sami (European people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, USA : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), 2024.

Summary:

With a focus on Sami the transcultural and transnational homeland of the Sami 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 Smi objects in both private and museum collections worldwide have impacted Smi 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 Smi mobilization, which calls into question assumptions about how best to activate and experience Smi cultural heritage and what constitutes appropriate stewardship, this book sheds light on initiatives to return artefacts to the Smi community. With particular attention to the ways in which Smi 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.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Máhttsat ja Mujttalit: Árran's Negotiations in the Bååstede Project 2. Old Sea Sámi Artefacts and New Museum Practices 3. From DigiJoik to Luohtevuorká: Appropriation and Appreciation in the Process of Making New Homes for Luođit 4. Drum Time: Tracing the Multifaceted Significances and Stories of a Sámi Drum 5. The Hagenbeck Sámi Collection at Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Berlin 6. The Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum: A Case Study in Decolonization 7. Imagining the "Otherwises" of Indigenous Sámi Art: (De)coloniality in Sámi Dáiddamuseax and "The Sámi Pavilion" 8. Upon Return, a NewArctic: A Collaborative Museum Experiment 9. Gállogieddi Caput Sápmi 10. The Sacred Mountain: The Heritage-Making of Sálašoaivi/Tromsdalstinden Afterword: Memory Institutions and the Cultural Politics of Appreciation.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-04-026188-4

1-003-42631-X

9781003426318

OCLC:

1468301119