Sacred Natural Sites in the Arctic North: Living memory, traditions, cultural heritage and exploitation through tourism and inadequate protection

• Published in: Nordicum-Mediterraneum
• Main Author: Francis Joy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Akureyri 2022
• Subjects: sacred sites; appropriation; cultural heritage; protection; sieidi; tourism; archeo; hist; Arctic; Muonio; Fennoscandia; Lapland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.33112/nm.17.3.9; https://doaj.org/article/0d64160d608f48b988afbd20d61240a4

The subject matters of better preservation and thus, protection of sacred sites, is a topic that is brought into focus here because of growing concerns regarding mining, land development and expansion of the travel industry in northern Fennoscandia, which has increased the threats sacred sites face...