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Aspects of the Lappish minority situation
In: Scandinavian university books
Lappish Guest Relationships under Conditions of Cultural Change1
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 68, Issue 2, p. 426-437
ISSN: 1548-1433
Robert Redfield (1898–1958)
In: Ethnos, Volume 25, Issue 3-4, p. 228-240
ISSN: 1469-588X
Aspects of the Lappish Minority Situation
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 9, Issue 3, p. 510
Negotiating with the Public - Ethnographic Museums and Ethnopolitics
Indigenous peoples, like the Sami of Fenno-Scandinavia, continue to be the object of museum display in ethnographic museums. Most of these exhibits focus predominantly on culture history via objects that reveal the quality and richness of indigenous cultures, with less emphasis on the political struggles that indigenous peoples are involved in. This paper is a reflection on the experiences in making a museum representation of a modern indigenous movement – the struggle of Sami in Norway for recognition and rights as an indigenous people. The project was meant not just to present a new way to represent indigenous peoples, but also to be designed as an argument in the ongoing ethnopolitical discourse on equity and difference in Sami-Norwegian relations.
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Negotiating with the public - a new role for ethnographic museums?
Indigenous peoples, like the Sami of Fenno-Scandinavia, continue to be the object of museum display in ethnographic museums. Most of these exhibits focus predominantly on culture history via objects that reveal the quality and richness of indigenous cultures, with less emphasis on the political struggles that indigenous peoples are involved in. This paper is a reflection on the experiences in making a museum representation of a modern indigenous movement – the struggle of Sami in Norway for recognition and rights as an indigenous people. The project was meant not just to present a new way to represent indigenous peoples, but also to be designed as an argument in the ongoing ethnopolitical discourse on equity and difference in Sami- Norwegian relations
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