Collecting, connecting, constructing: Early modern commodification and globalization of Sámi material culture

This article analyses the role of material culture in the enforcing of a colonial order in early modern Sápmi (Land of the Sámi, the indigenous people in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in Russia). In addition, the article focuses on the unequal power relations created throug...

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VerfasserInnen: Monié Nordin, Jonas 1970- (VerfasserIn) ; Ojala, Carl-Gösta 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage Publ. [2018]
In: Journal of material culture
Jahr: 2018, Band: 23, Heft: 1, Seiten: 58-82
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Samen (Volk) / Sachkultur / Kultgegenstand / Sammlung / Geschichte 1600-1700
RelBib Classification:AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
BB Indigene Religionen
KBE Nordeuropa; Skandinavien
TJ Neuzeit
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Zusammenfassung:This article analyses the role of material culture in the enforcing of a colonial order in early modern Sápmi (Land of the Sámi, the indigenous people in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in Russia). In addition, the article focuses on the unequal power relations created through the collecting and cultural appropriation of Sámi objects. The 17th century saw a rapid growth of interest in the Sámi and their material culture. Clothing, sledges, ceremonial drums and other objects were collected for royal and noble courts of Europe, as well as for scholars and other collectors. This Eurocentric process of constructing Sáminess was concurrent with colonial attitudes towards non-European peoples. Empirically, the article explores the collecting of Sámi objects, clothes and religious/sacred material culture such as ceremonial drums and sieidis, as well as models and mannequins, and their role in the colonial rule and imperial representations of Sápmi.
ISSN:1460-3586
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of material culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/1359183517741663