Identities, ethnicities and borderzones
Subtitle: examples from Finnmark, Northern Norway
By: Kjell Olsen
Publisher: Orkana Akademisk
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stamsund
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9788281041509
Subjects: Sami (European people); Ethnic identity; Indigenous peoples; Cultural assimilation; Identity politics
Other titles: Identities, ethnicities and border zones
Description: "This book analyses identity processes and politics in Finnmark, Northern Norway. Finnmark can be described as a "cultural borderzone" because of the historical presence of a number of culturally different groups. The book covers the period of the early 1990s to the first years of the new millennium. In Finnmark, this period was characterized by the Saami [Sami, Lapps, Laplanders] cultural revival and the Norwegian State's recognition of the Saami as an indigenous ethnic group [Aboriginal or Native peoples] with certain political rights. This development in Saami society became pivotal for the identity processes among the other inhabitants of this area. The institutional representations of differences among separate groups coincided only marginally with the perception of differences that existed in everyday discourse in the local communities."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-[244]).
Table of contents: title: 1. The place and the problem :; title: The place and the people ; Encountering the field ; Overview of the chapters ; Saami ethnic identity [Sami, Lapps, Laplanders, Indigenous; title: Native or Aboriginal peoples]; title: 2. The Authority of the past : heritage preservation and identity as a whole life of struggle :; title: Heritage preservation in Norway ; the Kvens ; Ethnic revitalization ; The first story ; Roles for resistance ; A Different story ; Renaissance or struggle?; title: 3. Ethnicity and representation in a "local" museum :; title: A cultural borderland or a contact zone at the museum?; title: The exhibition ; Contesting and simultaneous stories ; Contesting narratives about the Saami; title: 4. Making differences in a changing world :; title: The Saami and the development of a collective; title: Saami self-understanding; title: The Touristic image of "the Other" [stereotype, stereotypes]; title: The Norwegian Saami in the tourist brochures; title: The Saami sites along the road; title: 5. Heritage, religion and the deficit of meaning in institutionalized discourse :; title: Joik ; Joik as an ethnic symbol ; Deficit of meaning ; Heritage in the present : the genealogical vs. the organic sense of history; title: 6. Entering modernity : everyday symbols of identity :; title: Categories in everyday discourse ; Alta ; The choice of language in public meetings ; the Saami flag in Alta; title: Saami cultural competence [culture], being indigenous "the ILO-way", and the ontological difference of simple nationalism; title: 7. When ethnic identity is a private matter :; title: Theoretical and empirical changes ; The Alta Fjord area 40 years ago and today; title: The changed context ; spheres of interaction; title: Individual constraints and leakages between spheres; title: Privatisation and vulnerability as consequences; title: 8. Identities in a borderzone :; title: Power relations between dominant and everyday discourses; title: Individual conscious attempts to create order in shifting contexts dominated by often contradictory usages