Ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts: examples from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland
When ethnicity is said to be manifest and practised through handicrafts, these seemingly innocent objects become political. They raise questions concerning who can do what handicraft, who can use what symbols or what developments are “allowed”. They illustrate the continuous production of ethnic nor...
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ftunivfreiburg:oai:freidok.uni-freiburg.de:172579 2023-05-15T13:02:13+02:00 Ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts: examples from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland Schilar, Hannelene Keskitalo, E. Carina H. 2018 pdf https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/172579 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-1725793 https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2018.1456073 https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/dnb/download/172579 eng eng https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/172579 free Acta borealia. - 35, 1 (2018) , 29-48, ISSN: 1503-111X Tourismus Kritische Diskursanalyse article 2018 ftunivfreiburg https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2018.1456073 2023-01-15T23:48:37Z When ethnicity is said to be manifest and practised through handicrafts, these seemingly innocent objects become political. They raise questions concerning who can do what handicraft, who can use what symbols or what developments are “allowed”. They illustrate the continuous production of ethnic norms and boundaries, especially when global tourism enters into the equation. Taking a social constructivist perspective, our study addresses ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts in northern Sweden, Norway and Finland. Our findings are based on fieldwork (35 interviewees) with people of diverse local backgrounds making and selling handicrafts. Methodologically, we avoid preselecting people based on ethnicity, but instead contribute to an understanding of the constitutive processes of ethnicity by looking at how ethnic talk comes into conversations about handicrafts. Our findings demonstrate that the interviewees draw an ethnic divide between “Sámi”/“non-Sámi”, while other ethnic-choices move to the background. This divide can be seen to be amplified by tourism. The boundary for who can make a Sámi handicraft or use Sámi symbols remains significant, yet also fluid. The article deepens the understanding of the Sámi/non-Sámi ethnic categorization, here in relation to handicrafts. It also helps unravel the complexities between tourism, ethnicities and handicrafts more broadly. Article in Journal/Newspaper Acta Borealia Northern Norway Northern Sweden Sámi University of Freiburg: FreiDok Norway Acta Borealia 35 1 29 48 |
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When ethnicity is said to be manifest and practised through handicrafts, these seemingly innocent objects become political. They raise questions concerning who can do what handicraft, who can use what symbols or what developments are “allowed”. They illustrate the continuous production of ethnic norms and boundaries, especially when global tourism enters into the equation. Taking a social constructivist perspective, our study addresses ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts in northern Sweden, Norway and Finland. Our findings are based on fieldwork (35 interviewees) with people of diverse local backgrounds making and selling handicrafts. Methodologically, we avoid preselecting people based on ethnicity, but instead contribute to an understanding of the constitutive processes of ethnicity by looking at how ethnic talk comes into conversations about handicrafts. Our findings demonstrate that the interviewees draw an ethnic divide between “Sámi”/“non-Sámi”, while other ethnic-choices move to the background. This divide can be seen to be amplified by tourism. The boundary for who can make a Sámi handicraft or use Sámi symbols remains significant, yet also fluid. The article deepens the understanding of the Sámi/non-Sámi ethnic categorization, here in relation to handicrafts. It also helps unravel the complexities between tourism, ethnicities and handicrafts more broadly. |
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Ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts: examples from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland |
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