Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik
Abstract This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, a...
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crwiley:10.1111/aman.13742 2024-06-02T08:14:06+00:00 Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik Aubinet, Stéphane Universitetet i Oslo 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aman.13742 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/aman.13742 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/aman.13742 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/aman.13742 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ American Anthropologist volume 124, issue 4, page 855-865 ISSN 0002-7294 1548-1433 journal-article 2022 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13742 2024-05-03T11:09:25Z Abstract This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, associated with a specific being (typically a person, an animal, or a place), and intended to make that being present. By exploring this capacity to invoke and intensify the environment's presence, this article seeks to take the yoik seriously and thereby offer a counternarrative to both semiotic and logocentric understandings of knowledge and human/nonhuman relationships. [ knowledge, singing, semiotics, nonhuman, Sámi ] Article in Journal/Newspaper Sámi Wiley Online Library American Anthropologist 124 4 855 865 |
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Abstract This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, associated with a specific being (typically a person, an animal, or a place), and intended to make that being present. By exploring this capacity to invoke and intensify the environment's presence, this article seeks to take the yoik seriously and thereby offer a counternarrative to both semiotic and logocentric understandings of knowledge and human/nonhuman relationships. [ knowledge, singing, semiotics, nonhuman, Sámi ] |
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