Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community
This dissertation considers experiences of embodied memory and indigenous connection to land by which people reconstitute social life in Skolt Sámi resettlement areas of Arctic Finland. After their Petsamo homeland was ceded to the Soviet Union following the Second World War, Skolt relocation to new...
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ftunivcam:oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/283612 2023-07-30T04:02:05+02:00 Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community Magnani, Natalia 2018-10-11T20:00:45Z application/pdf https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.30980 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283612 en eng Peterhouse College Geography (Scott Polar Research Institute) University of Cambridge doi:10.17863/CAM.30980 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283612 All rights reserved https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ memory Sami practical knowledge Finland Indigenous articulations materiality Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) PhD in Polar Studies 2018 ftunivcam https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.30980 2023-07-10T22:02:29Z This dissertation considers experiences of embodied memory and indigenous connection to land by which people reconstitute social life in Skolt Sámi resettlement areas of Arctic Finland. After their Petsamo homeland was ceded to the Soviet Union following the Second World War, Skolt relocation to new areas of northern Finland radically transformed social, political, and subsistence lifeways, including through education in Finnish boarding schools. Continuing out-migration to Finnish cities has contributed to the suppression of identity and threats to community wellbeing, felt in ruptures of practice associated with material culture, language, and relationships with local ecologies. Though most studies in the region still focus on the reindeer herding and fishing commonly associated with Sámi populations, there is actually resurgence of Skolt craft (boats, tools, dress), as well as collection and processing of wild foods, which form the core of a vibrant cultural revival. Through participant observation and life history methods, I follow the making of things using local materials as a means by which people remake relationships with the land and with each other. The thesis focuses on the first 14 months of fieldwork in Čeʹvetjäuʹrr (F. Sevettijärvi) 2014-2015, out of a total of 26 months of multi-sited research in the Sámi regions. Scholarship on memory, practice, and displacement examines how memory becomes embodied, reworked, and reconciled across generations, and how material objects and the creation of home in new places create connections to original homelands. Meanwhile, studies among indigenous communities highlight how people use craft and art to establish connections to land despite, and through, displacement and movement. However, to understand the tangible mechanisms of these attachments and interventions, I inquire into the material practices by which people form relationships to resettlement environments. The thesis follows the concept of practical knowledge as transformed and mobilised through revival ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Arctic Northern Finland sami sami Sámi Sámi Skolt Sámi Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository Arctic Sevettijärvi ENVELOPE(28.587,28.587,69.505,69.505) |
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This dissertation considers experiences of embodied memory and indigenous connection to land by which people reconstitute social life in Skolt Sámi resettlement areas of Arctic Finland. After their Petsamo homeland was ceded to the Soviet Union following the Second World War, Skolt relocation to new areas of northern Finland radically transformed social, political, and subsistence lifeways, including through education in Finnish boarding schools. Continuing out-migration to Finnish cities has contributed to the suppression of identity and threats to community wellbeing, felt in ruptures of practice associated with material culture, language, and relationships with local ecologies. Though most studies in the region still focus on the reindeer herding and fishing commonly associated with Sámi populations, there is actually resurgence of Skolt craft (boats, tools, dress), as well as collection and processing of wild foods, which form the core of a vibrant cultural revival. Through participant observation and life history methods, I follow the making of things using local materials as a means by which people remake relationships with the land and with each other. The thesis focuses on the first 14 months of fieldwork in Čeʹvetjäuʹrr (F. Sevettijärvi) 2014-2015, out of a total of 26 months of multi-sited research in the Sámi regions. Scholarship on memory, practice, and displacement examines how memory becomes embodied, reworked, and reconciled across generations, and how material objects and the creation of home in new places create connections to original homelands. Meanwhile, studies among indigenous communities highlight how people use craft and art to establish connections to land despite, and through, displacement and movement. However, to understand the tangible mechanisms of these attachments and interventions, I inquire into the material practices by which people form relationships to resettlement environments. The thesis follows the concept of practical knowledge as transformed and mobilised through revival ... |
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Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community |
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Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community |
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Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community |
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Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community |
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Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community |
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making indigenous futures: land, memory, and 'silent knowledge' in a skolt sámi community |
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