New book about Sámi culture edited by UArctic Chair Jan Borm
Jan Borm, UArctic Chair in Arctic Humanities, has edited the collective volume Practices and Mediations of Sámi Culture: Indigeneity, Ethno-history and Art, just published by Brill in their Arctic Humanities series
The book is the third in the series. It is dedicated to the culture of the Sámi and their homeland, Sápmi (Lapland). The contributions focus on textual and visual representations of Sápmi and the Sámi in the past and present, seen both from within and without, discussing the practice of Sámi culture across time, as well as cultural mediations thereof.
The book offers a rare transdisciplinary approach in the field of Arctic Humanities, associating art history with anthropology, history, literature, cultural studies, comparative religion, film, education and creative writing. It includes an unpublished essay by the late John Burnside, one of Britian’s foremost contemporary poets, as well as chapters by Joanna Kodzik, Konsta Kaikkonen, Jan Borm, Risto Pulkkinen, Francis Joy, Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja, Pigga Keskitalo, Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, Liisa E. Holmberg and Katja Hyry.