Traditionalisation for Revitalisation: Tradition as a Concept and Practice in Contemporary Sámi Contexts

Cocq, Coppélie

doi:10.7592/fejf2014.57.cocq

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“…Critical discourse analysis [18] with the focus on the text as an expression of discourse and as an element of social event [18. P. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] is applied as the methodological approach to the study of the Kola Sámi self-descriptions. Following Fairclough's approach, the texts are considered in the relation to both the context and the authors producing and publishing them [18.…”

Section: Ethnographic Self-descriptions Of the Kola Sa MImentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproducing and shifting discourses on indigenous culture: Ethnographic self-descriptions of the Kola Sámi

Kuropjatnik

2023

Vestnik Rossijskogo universiteta druzhby narodov. Serija Sociol

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The article considers ethnographic self-descriptions as a cultural form in which indigenous authors conceptualise their culture in the shifting social contexts. Ethnographic selfdescriptions present (a) the transformation of the oral-discursive practices of indigenous culture into text; (b) the interpretation of the scientific versions of culture by indigenous authors. The author focuses on how Sámi culture is conceptualized in the text and as the written text by Sámi authors, taking into account the scientific descriptions of their culture and non-discursive cultural forms (such as ethnographic collections). In the texts of indigenous authors, anthropological versions of culture become a source for reproducing some patterns of culture’s conceptualization as relevant to a particular tradition in social sciences. Thus, ethnographic self-descriptions are interpreted in terms of intertextuality with an emphasis on relations between oral and written discourse, academic and indigenous discourse, discursive and non-discursive practices. Texts as a part of cultural reality or as elements of social events have causal effects which contribute to changes in the perception of Sámi culture and in the ways it is represented in the indigenous perspective, i.e., texts participate in the reproduction, creation and modification of numerous discourses on the Kola Sámi culture. In the ethnographic self-description of many Kola Sámi, ‘culture’ can be recontextualized by actors. Moreover, positions and identity of the observer (the author) and the observed (indigenous people) are partly connected, which implies a change in the epistemological status of the indigenous discourse. The processual approach to the cultural conceptualization and the focus on indigenous insights presented in the ethnographic self-descriptions constitute the methodological basis for examining some contemporary cultural trends of the Kola Sámi (Russia). The author analyses the published texts of the contemporary Kola Sámi authors, who are not professional anthropologists.

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Section: Ethnographic Self-descriptions Of the Kola Sa MImentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproducing and shifting discourses on indigenous culture: Ethnographic self-descriptions of the Kola Sámi

Kuropjatnik

2023

Vestnik Rossijskogo universiteta druzhby narodov. Serija Sociol

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“…Traditionalisation has become an important strategy in the identity politics of Indigenous peoples, who need to demonstrate their maintenance of shared cultural traits, practices, and identities over time, despite assimilation processes. Referring to common traditions, "traditionalisation ensures the future of these practices and gives them stability" [67] (p. 90, 91) and tradition is often used to produce a coherent identity of heterogeneous groups [68] (p. 1). Also, globalisation as a "way of organizing heterogeneity" has contributed to indigenous homogenisation [69] (p. 10) by its emphasis on indigenous traditions as unique, but at the same time shared by Indigenous peoples everywhere.…”

Section: Revitalising Indigenous Tradition and The Importance Of áRbediehtu/traditional Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Pathfinders for the Future? Indigenous Rights and Traditional Knowledge in Sweden

2021

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Indigenous peoples have for the past decades increasingly argued that not only is their traditional knowledge to be recognized in the management of their traditional territories, but that Indigenous control and self-governance over territories and natural resources are crucial for long-term sustainability of the land and cultural revitalisation of its people. In recent years, the Saami in Sweden have also presented themselves as pathfinders, offering advice and solutions for a more sustainable future not only for the Saami society, but for all of Sweden. This paper investigates how Saami claims for rights and stewardship in environmental management are related to Saami cultural revitalisation, within a Swedish colonial framework. It is based on an investigation of the Saami policy positions expressed in policy documents and opinion pieces produced by organisations representing the Saami, linking claims for rights and environmental stewardship with cultural revitalisation and a more sustainable development for all.

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“…To summarize, practices of traditionalization can thus be both inclusive and exclusive, integrative as well as divisive (Cocq 2014). While elites might impose their views and interests and try to force others to accept them as the (new) rules of the game, demotic actors can always reinterpret and challenge top-down models to a certain degree.…”

Section: Tradition As Cultural Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practices of traditionalization in Central Asia

Beyer

Finke

2019

Central Asian Survey

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Traditionalisation for Revitalisation: Tradition as a Concept and Practice in Contemporary Sámi Contexts

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Reproducing and shifting discourses on indigenous culture: Ethnographic self-descriptions of the Kola Sámi

Reproducing and shifting discourses on indigenous culture: Ethnographic self-descriptions of the Kola Sámi

Pathfinders for the Future? Indigenous Rights and Traditional Knowledge in Sweden

Practices of traditionalization in Central Asia

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