The Sámi People in the Context of European Perceptions of Exotic Cultures in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Source at https://nord.unistra.fr/publications/publications-a-la-une/publication/la-reception-des-mythes-nordiques-en-france Astrakhan, not far from the shores of the Caspian Sea, close to today’s border between Russia and Kazakhstan: the year is 1715. A man by the name of Nicolaus Örn sends a lette...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/29156 2023-06-11T04:16:27+02:00 The Sámi People in the Context of European Perceptions of Exotic Cultures in the 17th and 18th Centuries Klein, Andreas 2022-01-21 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29156 eng eng Université de Strasbourg DESHIMA, revue d'histoire globale des pays du Nord Klein A. The Sámi People in the Context of European Perceptions of Exotic Cultures in the 17th and 18th Centuries. DESHIMA, revue d'histoire globale des pays du Nord. 2021(15):207-224 FRIDAID 1977169 1957-5173 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29156 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed acceptedVersion 2022 ftunivtroemsoe 2023-05-10T23:06:10Z Source at https://nord.unistra.fr/publications/publications-a-la-une/publication/la-reception-des-mythes-nordiques-en-france Astrakhan, not far from the shores of the Caspian Sea, close to today’s border between Russia and Kazakhstan: the year is 1715. A man by the name of Nicolaus Örn sends a letter to King George of Great Britain (1660–1727). He writes of his ordeal in captivity among Tatar and Kalmyk heathens, and begs the King to send a plea for his life to the Russian Tsar. When King George’s diplomat at the court of Peter the Great (1672–1725) approaches the Russian authorities to comply with the wish of the captive, he is informed that this is no longer necessary since “this Oera who would be a very unsettled and evil man had in the meantime managed on his own to flee Astrakhan and therefore one would not know where he was” (“[…] dieser Oera, der ein sehr unruhiger und böser Mensch wäre, sich mittlerzeit selbst Raht geschaffet hätte, aus Astrakan zu entwischen und man also nicht wüste, wo er wäre”).1 There is a point to this short tale from the edges of Europe, which connects it to the topic of this article, i.e. early modern depictions of the Sámi people as manifestations of European perceptions of exotic cultures. I shall return to the story of the prisoner in Astrakhan later on. Let me first introduce the key term of this article: exotic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sámi University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Örn ENVELOPE(-23.267,-23.267,64.883,64.883) |
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Source at https://nord.unistra.fr/publications/publications-a-la-une/publication/la-reception-des-mythes-nordiques-en-france Astrakhan, not far from the shores of the Caspian Sea, close to today’s border between Russia and Kazakhstan: the year is 1715. A man by the name of Nicolaus Örn sends a letter to King George of Great Britain (1660–1727). He writes of his ordeal in captivity among Tatar and Kalmyk heathens, and begs the King to send a plea for his life to the Russian Tsar. When King George’s diplomat at the court of Peter the Great (1672–1725) approaches the Russian authorities to comply with the wish of the captive, he is informed that this is no longer necessary since “this Oera who would be a very unsettled and evil man had in the meantime managed on his own to flee Astrakhan and therefore one would not know where he was” (“[…] dieser Oera, der ein sehr unruhiger und böser Mensch wäre, sich mittlerzeit selbst Raht geschaffet hätte, aus Astrakan zu entwischen und man also nicht wüste, wo er wäre”).1 There is a point to this short tale from the edges of Europe, which connects it to the topic of this article, i.e. early modern depictions of the Sámi people as manifestations of European perceptions of exotic cultures. I shall return to the story of the prisoner in Astrakhan later on. Let me first introduce the key term of this article: exotic. |
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The Sámi People in the Context of European Perceptions of Exotic Cultures in the 17th and 18th Centuries |
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The Sámi People in the Context of European Perceptions of Exotic Cultures in the 17th and 18th Centuries |
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The Sámi People in the Context of European Perceptions of Exotic Cultures in the 17th and 18th Centuries |
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The Sámi People in the Context of European Perceptions of Exotic Cultures in the 17th and 18th Centuries |
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The Sámi People in the Context of European Perceptions of Exotic Cultures in the 17th and 18th Centuries |
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sámi people in the context of european perceptions of exotic cultures in the 17th and 18th centuries |
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DESHIMA, revue d'histoire globale des pays du Nord Klein A. The Sámi People in the Context of European Perceptions of Exotic Cultures in the 17th and 18th Centuries. DESHIMA, revue d'histoire globale des pays du Nord. 2021(15):207-224 FRIDAID 1977169 1957-5173 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29156 |
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