Yesterday’s Memories, Today’s Discourses:The Struggle of the Russian Sámi to Construct a Meaningful Past
When new discourses appear, they can cause a certain pressure to search for new meaning of past actions and therefore even change recollection. During a period of discursive transition, these processes of memory evolution can cause serious social rifts. These insights from oral history theories are...
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ftulaplandcdispu:oai:lacris.ulapland.fi:publications/97603623-45da-49a8-81eb-6306980ebf25 2024-01-28T10:02:08+01:00 Yesterday’s Memories, Today’s Discourses:The Struggle of the Russian Sámi to Construct a Meaningful Past Allemann, Lukas 2017-01-01 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/97603623-45da-49a8-81eb-6306980ebf25 https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.54.1.1 https://lacris.ulapland.fi/ws/files/3363395/Allemann_Yesterday_s_memories_today_s_discourses_accepted_version.docx eng eng https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/97603623-45da-49a8-81eb-6306980ebf25 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Allemann , L 2017 , ' Yesterday’s Memories, Today’s Discourses : The Struggle of the Russian Sámi to Construct a Meaningful Past ' , Arctic Anthropology , vol. 54 , no. 1 , pp. 1-21 . https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.54.1.1 Sami people Sami research oral history Soviet Union Indigenous peoples of the Arctic ANTHROPOLOGY /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/14/3 name=Social anthropology /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/6/15 name=History and archaeology article 2017 ftulaplandcdispu https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.54.1.1 2024-01-04T00:03:16Z When new discourses appear, they can cause a certain pressure to search for new meaning of past actions and therefore even change recollection. During a period of discursive transition, these processes of memory evolution can cause serious social rifts. These insights from oral history theories are applied in this paper to the Sámi people in Russia, who all too often are seen by outsiders as a homogeneous community. I seek to correct this distorted image by analyzing the several interconnected rifts crisscrossing the Russian Sámi society. The following social fault lines are identified: the generational, the gender, the siyt, and the Lovozero- and-the-rest rifts, as well as a rift of worldviews, which I describe through two conceptual poles called “activists” and “sovkhoists.” Thus, the article contributes to raising awareness about the potentially differing interests of the individuals who constitute what is usually called the Russian Sámi “community” and increasing the critical distance of outsiders towards generalizing claims about “the” Russian Sámi. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Anthropology Arctic sami Sámi LaCRIS - University of Lapland Current Research System Arctic Lovozero ENVELOPE(35.016,35.016,68.006,68.006) Arctic Anthropology 54 1 1 21 |
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When new discourses appear, they can cause a certain pressure to search for new meaning of past actions and therefore even change recollection. During a period of discursive transition, these processes of memory evolution can cause serious social rifts. These insights from oral history theories are applied in this paper to the Sámi people in Russia, who all too often are seen by outsiders as a homogeneous community. I seek to correct this distorted image by analyzing the several interconnected rifts crisscrossing the Russian Sámi society. The following social fault lines are identified: the generational, the gender, the siyt, and the Lovozero- and-the-rest rifts, as well as a rift of worldviews, which I describe through two conceptual poles called “activists” and “sovkhoists.” Thus, the article contributes to raising awareness about the potentially differing interests of the individuals who constitute what is usually called the Russian Sámi “community” and increasing the critical distance of outsiders towards generalizing claims about “the” Russian Sámi. |
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