Idioms of SaMi Health and Healing

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-77212-088-2
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 154 mm, Gewicht: 370 g

Reihe: Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing Series

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. 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.

Zielgruppe

Specialists and students

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Barbara Helen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Waugh, Earle H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Komplementäre Medizin, Asiatische Medizin (TCM), Heilpraktiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Waugh, Earle H.
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.

Miller, Barbara Helen
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).