The disappearance of the sacred Swedish Sami drum and the protection of Sami cultural heritage:Research into Sámi History and Cultural Heritage
One of the last frontiers of the pre-Christian Sámi religion and cosmology from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can be found recorded as embedded systems of knowledge on a range of noaidi-shaman drums kept in museums across Europe. Missionaries and clergymen as well as explorers who sought...
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ftulaplandcdispu:oai:lacris.ulapland.fi:publications/8bb82946-b47a-48e7-ade0-4d0f9d644da4 2024-01-28T10:02:19+01:00 The disappearance of the sacred Swedish Sami drum and the protection of Sami cultural heritage:Research into Sámi History and Cultural Heritage Joy, Francis 2018 https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/8bb82946-b47a-48e7-ade0-4d0f9d644da4 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247418000438 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056997343&partnerID=8YFLogxK http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85056997343&partnerID=8YFLogxK eng eng https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/8bb82946-b47a-48e7-ade0-4d0f9d644da4 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Joy , F 2018 , ' The disappearance of the sacred Swedish Sami drum and the protection of Sami cultural heritage : Research into Sámi History and Cultural Heritage ' , Polar Record : a Journal of Arctic and Antarctic research , vol. 54 , no. 4 , pp. 255-266 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247418000438 Sámi noaidi magic drums cultural heritage museums loss of culture /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/6/15 name=History and archaeology /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/6/13/2 name=Visual arts and design /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/6/14 name=Theology article 2018 ftulaplandcdispu https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247418000438 2024-01-04T00:03:21Z One of the last frontiers of the pre-Christian Sámi religion and cosmology from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can be found recorded as embedded systems of knowledge on a range of noaidi-shaman drums kept in museums across Europe. Missionaries and clergymen as well as explorers who sought interest in the magical powers of the Sámi noaidi collected these artefacts during witchcraft trials and persecutions throughout Sápmi, the Sámi homeland areas. Insomuch as the drums being taken away from their owners and shipped from their homelands to other countries, their safeguarding, security and preservation as ancient sources of knowledge in museums is seldom discussed. As a consequence, the investigation presented here is a case study concerning the disappearance of a Sámi noaidi drum sent to a museum in France that has its origins in Swedish Sápmi, which I was informed about in 2017 prior to a visit to Paris for a seminar concerning the Sámi and their culture in Finland. The loss of the drum has only recently become known, and raises a series of important questions concerning responsibilities museums have with regard to the protection of property belonging to the Sámi as well as the repatriation and return of cultural heritage with regard to historical artefacts. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Polar Record sami sami LaCRIS - University of Lapland Current Research System Polar Record 54 4 255 266 |
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One of the last frontiers of the pre-Christian Sámi religion and cosmology from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can be found recorded as embedded systems of knowledge on a range of noaidi-shaman drums kept in museums across Europe. Missionaries and clergymen as well as explorers who sought interest in the magical powers of the Sámi noaidi collected these artefacts during witchcraft trials and persecutions throughout Sápmi, the Sámi homeland areas. Insomuch as the drums being taken away from their owners and shipped from their homelands to other countries, their safeguarding, security and preservation as ancient sources of knowledge in museums is seldom discussed. As a consequence, the investigation presented here is a case study concerning the disappearance of a Sámi noaidi drum sent to a museum in France that has its origins in Swedish Sápmi, which I was informed about in 2017 prior to a visit to Paris for a seminar concerning the Sámi and their culture in Finland. The loss of the drum has only recently become known, and raises a series of important questions concerning responsibilities museums have with regard to the protection of property belonging to the Sámi as well as the repatriation and return of cultural heritage with regard to historical artefacts. |
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The disappearance of the sacred Swedish Sami drum and the protection of Sami cultural heritage:Research into Sámi History and Cultural Heritage |
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Joy , F 2018 , ' The disappearance of the sacred Swedish Sami drum and the protection of Sami cultural heritage : Research into Sámi History and Cultural Heritage ' , Polar Record : a Journal of Arctic and Antarctic research , vol. 54 , no. 4 , pp. 255-266 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247418000438 |
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