Blar i forfatter "Äikäs, Tiina"

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    • Animals in Saami Shamanism: Power Animals, Symbols of Art, and Offerings 

      Fonneland, Trude; Äikäs, Tiina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-07)
      In this paper, we study the role of power animals in contemporary Saami shamanism and how past and present are entwined in the presentation of power animals. In the old Saami worldviews, in addition to animals, spirits and sacred rocks (sieidi, SaaN) were also considered to be able to interact with people. Animals were an important part of offering rituals because livelihood and rituals were ...

    • Bear bones at Saami offering sites 

      Spangen, Marte; Salmi, Anna-Kaisa; Äikäs, Tiina; Fjellström, Markus (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-01)
      Saami traditions related to bear hunting and bear burials are quite well known, both from written and archaeological sources. However, the Saami also included bears in their repeated rituals at offering sites, which has been less explored. In this article, we present the archaeological sources for this offering tradition. Further, we discuss the chronology and geography as well as the content and ...

    • 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 ...

    • Introduction: The Making of Sámi Religion in Contemporary Society 

      Fonneland, Trude; Äikäs, Tiina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-23)
      This Special Issue of Religions approaches “Sámi religion” from a long-term perspective seeing both the past religious practices and contemporary religious expressions as aspects of the same phenomena. This does not refer, however, to a focus on continuity or to a static or uniform understanding of Sámi religion. Sámi religion is an ambiguous concept that has to be understood as a pluralistic ...

    • 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 ...

    • "Traces of our ancient religion". Meaning-making and Shamanism at Sami Offering Places at the Isogaisa Festival, Northern Norway 

      Äikäs, Tiina; Fonneland, Trude A.; Thomas, Suzie; Perttola, Wesa; Kraft, Siv Ellen (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2018)
      In 2010, the first shaman festival to be held in the Nordic countries opened its doors to the public in the county of Lavangen, Northern Norway (Fig. 1). The festival is named Isogaisa and presented as an indigenous festival highlighting the spiritual traditions of indigenous people. At this annual festival, shamans from all over the world gather to perform ceremonies and exchange knowledge.

    • 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 ...