From the amalgamation of land [flesh] and water [blood] a metamorphose happened, and the one who creates, Sivdnideaddji, took the two elements to make the soil. From here, They shaped our Máttaráhkuid, the Foremothers that are the first ‘landed’ beings, entities that both are of and emerge from the land. In the sky above, Beaiváš looked upon those that were newly formed. Arrayed in the splendour of Her yellow light, a deep and abiding love grew.
Forfatter: liisaravna
I´m a Sámi archaeologist and museologist from Oslo/Vaapste/Skánit on the Norwegian side of the border.
I live in Oslo and am currently employed at the University of Oslo, pursuing a PhD in museology where I looks at the relation between Sámi identity and duodji within a museological framework.
I am also a duojár, and I teach both courses and workshops in traditional Sámi arts.
Capitalism’s colonial epistemicide:
There is little question that the worldwide rise of capitalism relied on colonial expansion and that, in turn, the perpetuation of colonialism has been directly enabled by the structures of capital’ (Roth 2019, 307). Within the framework of a Western onto-epistemology then, colonization is undeniably linked to the advance of capitalism – both as an ideology and as an economic system.
IT SPEAKS TO YOU:
MAKING KIN OF PEOPLE, DUODJI, AND STORIES IN SÁMI MUSEUMS. It seems so long ago that I was sent the first print proof from my editor at Dio Press, but it has really only been a year since. At that point, I had worked on my manuscript for years and it honestly felt as if…
SAMER SOM DE ANDRE
Med et pennestrøk ble dermed samene strøket ut av den norske forhistorien.
INDIGENOUS METHODOLOGIES AND CREATIVE PRACTICES
PhD workshop, Tampere University (Finland), 25-26 November 2022. When Shawn Wilson (Opaskwayak Cree) wrote the precursor to his much celebrated book on Indigenous methodologies, he stated that the dominant paradigms of research build on the fundamental belief that knowledge is individual; it is produced by individuals, disseminated by individuals, and thus owned by individuals (Wilson…
MER ENN ET PLAGG
GÁKTI SOM FORTELLING OG JURIDISK DOKUMENT. Den siste tida har media florert av meninger og ytringer om den samiske kofta, eller gákti [nordsamisk]. For det første så syns jeg det er veldig trist at spørsmål om koftebruk og hvem som har rett til å bruke kofte reduseres til identitetspolitikk. Nå har riktignok nyere forskning pekt…
«NO ONE CAN REALLY OWN CULTURE»
«To a trained eye, the costumes marketed by said company are of course easily spotted as fake, but its not so much a question of the visuals being authentic or not. To a much larger degree, the problem is that our cultures are still perceived as a free for all, the property of no one and therefore applicable to everyone.»
INDIGENOUS AND NATURE
» And so, Indigenous eventually came to occupy the domain of nature, far removed from the “cultured” colonist. In time, culture would come to be defined by reference to its opposing concept, nature. Similarly, the “noble savage”, or the Indigenous would become the other to the colonizer»
#JESUISSIV OG KOFTA SOM FORSVANT
Allikevel synes folk flest, i hvert fall etter norsk offentlighet å dømme, at det er greit å kle seg ut som Pocahontas – for «det gjør man jo tross alt som barn».
«You will never reach the standards of academic writing»
«Having dyslexia should never be a source of shame, but if someone is shaming you for that reason, then just know that that’s on them and never on you.»
Liisa-Rávná Finbog 