Riddu Riđđu, joik or rock-n-roll? : A study of Riddu Riđđu Festivála and its role as a cultural tool for ethnic revitalization

• Main Author: Leonenko, Anastasia
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2008
• Subjects: Coastal Saami; VDP::Social science: 200::Social anthropology: 250; Coastal Saami Cultural Days; Riddu Riđđu; Manndalen; Kåfjord; Saami revitalisation; cultural revitalisation; festival; traditions and modernity; ethnic revitalisation; invented traditions; revitalised traditions; cultural inventions; authenticity; imagined community; symbolic community; ethnic identity; creators of invented traditions; symbols; music; SVF-3904; Kåfjord in; Kåfjord, in; Kåfjord,in; Norway; saami; Troms
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/1579

The International Indigenous Riddu Riđđu Festivála has taken place every year since 1991 in Manndalen, a Coastal Saami hamlet, in the municipality of Kåfjord in the county of Troms in the North of Norway. The festival represents by itself an independent event that through indigenous management and d...