Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing

by Barbara Helen Miller (Editor), Stein R. Mathisen (Contribution by), Anne Karen Haetta (Contribution by), Marit Myrvoll (Contribution by), Trine Kvitberg (Contribution by)

Overview

The 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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781772121056
Publisher:	The University of Alberta Press
Publication date:	12/22/2015
Series:	Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Barbara Helen Miller, PhD in Anthropology from Leiden University (the Netherlands) is currently an independent scholar, working in co-operation with the Research Group Circumpolar Cultures. She received the Master of Arts in Psychology of Religion from the Norwich University, Vermont College (Montpelier, Vermont, USA) and the Diploma in Analytical Psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich (Küsnacht, Switzerland). Her most widely read publication is Connecting and Correcting, A Case Study of Sámi Healers in Porsanger. Leiden: CNWS (2007).
David G. Anderson is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Tromsø, Norway. His interests include circumpolar ethnography, ethnoarchaeology, ethnohistory, and the history of science. He is the author of a monograph on Taimyr Evenkis and Dolgans, the editor of several collections from Berghahn Books, and Associate Editor of the journal Sibirica. He is currently Chair in The Anthropology of the North in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.
Earle H. Waugh is Professor Emeritus and was Director of the Centre for the Centre for Health and Culture in the Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton upon his retirement.

Table of Contents

Foreword | 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

Editorial Reviews

"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

From the Publisher

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.

Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research - Astrid E.J. Ogilvie