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dc.contributor.advisorDjesa, Rachel Issa
dc.contributor.authorBogdanova, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-08T10:18:31Z
dc.date.available2016-06-08T10:18:31Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-11
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a cultural document, a study of the Scots pine (Pinus Sylvestris L.) inner bark use, as a source of food and medicine among the Indigenous Sámi people of Northern Fennoscandia. The questions that drove this research centered on the methods and reasons people have developed over time for using Scots pine inner bark. It is still largely considered a ‘food taboo’ and is mostly associated with the years of crop failure. This research is written in indigenous studies with the elements of anthropology and ethnobotany. Using these interdisciplinary fields it becomes possible to locate the effect of such taboos and other burdens of history to the Sámi community. There are three major analytical pillars that hold up the content of this thesis. First, the literary encounters of bark food narratives, that were historically documented across Fennoscandia. Second, detailed ‘bark food’ practices and processes in the Sámi culture. Third, the availability of local resources and ethical dimensions of collecting, exhibiting,, curating and representing such Sámi traditional food related material at a local museum. The thesis argues that the Sámi have been using Scots pine inner bark as a source of food continuously and that whilst this tradition has changed it has not been lost. The key finding is a record of ‘bark food’ tradition continuity among the case study community in Northern Finland. My intention is to contribute to the politics of appreciation, of Indigenous food traditions, recognized as part of their identity and as intangible cultural heritage, including a choir of native voices, both in a historical and a contemporary perspective.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/9295
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8853
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2016 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDSVF-3904
dc.subjectcultural heritageen_US
dc.subjectSami fooden_US
dc.subjectindigenous peopleen_US
dc.subjectethnobotanyen_US
dc.subjectmuseum representationen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosialantropologi: 250en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Social anthropology: 250en_US
dc.titleBark Food. The Continuity and Change of the Pine Inner Bark Use for Food by Sámi People in Northern Fennoscandiaen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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