Blar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (arkeologi, historie, religionsvitenskap og teologi) "Äikäs, Tiina"

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    • Introduction: Currents of Saami pasts 

      Spangen, Marte; Salmi, Anna-Kaisa; Äikäs, Tiina; Fjellström, Markus (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020)
      A scientific field is a constant process, and, as all processes, it is defined by dialectics, since standpoints are only defined in opposition to something else. Saami archaeology is no exception, and this field emerged precisely because of oppositions, when political conflicts enforced the realization of a lack of consideration of the Saami presence in the prevailing understanding of the past in ...

    • Sacred Nature. Diverging Use and Understanding of Old Sámi Offering Sites in Alta, Northern Norway 

      Spangen, Marte; Äikäs, Tiina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-27)
      Abstract: This study focuses on the contemporary use of two well-known Sámi offering sites in Alta, Finnmark, Norway. Today, these are hiking destinations and sightseeing points for both the Sámi and the non-Sámi local population, as well as a few non-local visitors. Many of these visitors leave objects at the sites, such as parts of recently slaughtered reindeer, clothing, coins, toys, sweet wrappers ...

    • Zooarchaeological and stable isotope evidence of Sámi reindeer offerings 

      Salmi, Anna-Kaisa; Fjellström, Markus; Äikäs, Tiina; Spangen, Marte; Nunez, Milton; Lidén, Kerstin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-19)
      This paper presents new osteometric and stable isotope evidence of Sámi reindeer offerings. Previous archaeological studies have shown that reindeer domestication and intensification of reindeer herding transformed Sámi indigenous religion. However, because of the methodological challenges in the identification of wild and domesticated reindeer in the archaeological record, the exact nature of the ...