From Lapland to Sápmi Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture
Barbara Sjoholm

From Lapland to Sápmi Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture

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A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts

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. 

An important contribution to Sámi stories of loss, recovery, and the struggle for equality, as well as the right to manage one’s own cultural heritage on one’s own terms. As Barbara Sjoholm charts the transformation of Lapland to Sápmi in objects, joiks, and storytelling, Sámi voices emerge to share essential aspects of their history. As we say in Sápmi, ‘Čálli giehta ollá guhkás—A writing hand reaches far.’

 Káren Elle Gaup, coeditor of Bååstede: The Return of Sámi Cultural Heritage


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