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Book SynopsisThe Sámi—Indigenous people of northernmost Europe—have relied on Traditional Healing methods over generations. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and demonstrates the effectiveness of using the resources local communities can provide. This collection of essays by ten experts also records how ancient healing traditions and modern health-care systems have worked together, and sometimes competed, to provide solutions for local problems. Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing is one of the first English-language studies of the Traditional Healing methods among the Sámi, and offers valuable insight and academic context to those in the fields of anthropology, medical anthropology, transcultural psychiatry, and circumpolar studies. Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing is the second volume in the Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing series. Foreword by David G. Anderson. Contributors: Kjell Birkely Andersen, Anne Karen Hætta, Mona Anita Kiil, Britt Kramvig, Trine Kvitberg, Stein R. Mathisen, Barbara Helen Miller, Marit Myrvoll, Randi Inger Johanne Nymo, Sigvald Persen.
Trade Review"The essays in this collection are both erudite and fascinating and represent much detailed research by a number of scholars in Sámi affairs. The book should appeal to a wide audience, from those interested in forms of non-traditional medicine and alternative ways of healing, to those interested in the Sámi and northern cultures in general, as well as in Shamanism and wizardry." -- Astrid E.J. Ogilvie * Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research *
Table of ContentsForeword | David G. Anderson Preface | Earle Waugh Acknowledgements Map of Sápmi Introduction | Barbara Helen Miller 1 Constituting Scholarly Versions of a “Sámi Folk Medicine” Research Practices in the Colonial Contact Zone | Stein R. Mathisen 2 Secrecy in Sámi Traditional Healing | Anne Karen Hætta 3 Traditional Sámi Healing Heritage and Gifts of Grace | Marit Myrvoll 4 Dynamics of Naming Examples from Porsanger | Barbara Helen Miller 5 Multiple Views from Finnmark | Kjell Birkely Andersen, Sigvald Persen, and Barbara Helen Miller 6 “Suffering in Body and Soul” Lived Life and Experiences of Local Food Change in the Russian Arctic | Trine Kvitberg 7 The Paradox of Home Understanding Northern Troms as a Therapeutic Landscape | Mona Anita Kiil 8 Keeping Doors Open Everyday Life Between Knowledge Systems in the Markebygd Areas | Randi Nymo 9 Gifts of Dreams Connecting to Sámi Epistemic Practice | Britt Kramvig Contributors Index
