Objects as Identity markers - Ways of mediating the past in a South Sámi and Norse borderland
Museums have several means of communicating with their audiences. The problems discussed here concern how local museums interact with their audience when the past they want to portray is multiple, complex and sometimes disputed. It is based on an analysis of three exhibitions in local museums situat...
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ftniku:oai:niku.brage.unit.no:11250/2502068 2023-05-15T18:23:27+02:00 Objects as Identity markers - Ways of mediating the past in a South Sámi and Norse borderland Swensen, Grete 2017 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2502068 https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/834/780 eng eng University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies Norges forskningsråd: 212882 Museum & Society. 2017, 15 (2), 236-256. urn:issn:1479-8360 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2502068 https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/834/780 cristin:1447635 Navngivelse-Ikkekommersiell-IngenBearbeidelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no © 2017 Grete Swensen CC-BY-NC-ND 236-256 15 Museum & Society 2 disputed heritage identity markers South Sámi perceptions of the past museum exhibitions Journal article Peer reviewed 2017 ftniku 2021-07-20T18:18:55Z Museums have several means of communicating with their audiences. The problems discussed here concern how local museums interact with their audience when the past they want to portray is multiple, complex and sometimes disputed. It is based on an analysis of three exhibitions in local museums situated in a region where archaeological findings indicate that the South Sámi have been present since the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age. It highlights the various ways in which the pluralistic past in the region is being portrayed by asking whether its history appears as neutralized, i.e. transmitted in passive impartial terms, or is exoticized, repressed or mediated through other images. The one common identity marker the three exhibitions share, although portrayed in different ways and with different effects, is the gåetie, a turf hut in common use in the South Sámi region. A tendency to neutralize the multiple and complex past in the South Sámi region takes place, either by operating in a form of ‘timeless past‘ or by referring to a shared ‘far away past‘ as fishers and hunters. By barely mentioning cultural encounters, the South Sámi and the Norse are primarily presented as ethnic groups who have lived isolated and independent of each other publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper South Sámi Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU): Brage |
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Museums have several means of communicating with their audiences. The problems discussed here concern how local museums interact with their audience when the past they want to portray is multiple, complex and sometimes disputed. It is based on an analysis of three exhibitions in local museums situated in a region where archaeological findings indicate that the South Sámi have been present since the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age. It highlights the various ways in which the pluralistic past in the region is being portrayed by asking whether its history appears as neutralized, i.e. transmitted in passive impartial terms, or is exoticized, repressed or mediated through other images. The one common identity marker the three exhibitions share, although portrayed in different ways and with different effects, is the gåetie, a turf hut in common use in the South Sámi region. A tendency to neutralize the multiple and complex past in the South Sámi region takes place, either by operating in a form of ‘timeless past‘ or by referring to a shared ‘far away past‘ as fishers and hunters. By barely mentioning cultural encounters, the South Sámi and the Norse are primarily presented as ethnic groups who have lived isolated and independent of each other publishedVersion |
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Objects as Identity markers - Ways of mediating the past in a South Sámi and Norse borderland |
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