The silent language of ethnicity
The article argues that in everyday life, in ethnically mixed communities in the Arctic region, the concept of Saaminess is dynamic and situated. Social practices that sustain impure identity categories are in existence. People insist on ambiguity as a matter of resistance against Norwegian society...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1367549405049491 2024-10-13T14:05:21+00:00 The silent language of ethnicity Kramvig, Britt 2005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549405049491 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1367549405049491 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license European Journal of Cultural Studies volume 8, issue 1, page 45-64 ISSN 1367-5494 1460-3551 journal-article 2005 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549405049491 2024-09-17T04:38:54Z The article argues that in everyday life, in ethnically mixed communities in the Arctic region, the concept of Saaminess is dynamic and situated. Social practices that sustain impure identity categories are in existence. People insist on ambiguity as a matter of resistance against Norwegian society as well as against the logic of nationalism, after a century of institutionalized assimilation. In the practice of everyday life, gift exchange becomes a way of visualizing basic recognition and appreciation of the humanity of the other. Objects, values and symbols become the material employed in the creation of a local, collective self-perception that transcends ethnic boundaries. In such a context ethno-political identity categories and any notion of ethnicity that sees ethnic categories as mutually exclusive are poor tools for the analysis of what takes place in this region. There is a need for an opening up of concepts such as ethnicity and identity to encompass differences and antagonisms, both analytically and politically. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic SAGE Publications Arctic European Journal of Cultural Studies 8 1 45 64 |
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The article argues that in everyday life, in ethnically mixed communities in the Arctic region, the concept of Saaminess is dynamic and situated. Social practices that sustain impure identity categories are in existence. People insist on ambiguity as a matter of resistance against Norwegian society as well as against the logic of nationalism, after a century of institutionalized assimilation. In the practice of everyday life, gift exchange becomes a way of visualizing basic recognition and appreciation of the humanity of the other. Objects, values and symbols become the material employed in the creation of a local, collective self-perception that transcends ethnic boundaries. In such a context ethno-political identity categories and any notion of ethnicity that sees ethnic categories as mutually exclusive are poor tools for the analysis of what takes place in this region. There is a need for an opening up of concepts such as ethnicity and identity to encompass differences and antagonisms, both analytically and politically. |
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