From Lapland to Sápmi: collecting and returning Sámi craft and culture

Abstract

"The story of the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia unfolds across borders and centuries, in museums and private collections. Deftly written and amply illustrated, From Lapland to Sápmi brings to light the history of collecting, displaying, and returning Sámi material culture, as well as the story of Sámi creativity and individual and collective agency."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Map of Sápmi and Scandinavia -- Sápmi's geography and languages -- Introduction -- Lapponia -- Curiosity cabinets -- The Magic drum -- Mr. Bullock's exhibition of Laplanders -- A model prisoner -- Autumn migration in Lule Lapmark -- Razzias -- The Lappish department -- Making histories -- Roots and spirals -- Wax cylinders, Sámi voices -- Opening the blue chest -- Recentering: Sweden -- Returning: Norway -- Recollecting: Sápmi -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.