Idioms of Sami Health and Healing

The chapters in this book discuss the importance of traditional practices as a means for adaptation to current, changing times: coping with climate change, resource exploration and development, and the socio-cultural and economic changes that Indigenous communities across the Circumpolar North have...

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Published in:Northern review (Whitehorse) 2016 (43), p.139
Main Authors: Friendship, Katelyn, Kassi, Norma
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Cultural heritage
Idioms
Knowledge
Medicine
Native peoples
Perceptions
Reading
Russian language
Sociocultural factors
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Summary:The chapters in this book discuss the importance of traditional practices as a means for adaptation to current, changing times: coping with climate change, resource exploration and development, and the socio-cultural and economic changes that Indigenous communities across the Circumpolar North have to face. The use of stories gives a voice to those typically unheard; for example, through the eyes of Russian Sámi Elder women, the reader learns about the heavy impacts and disruptions on everyday life, and the experiences of displacement and restrictions from harvesting berries, fish, reindeer, and other food from the land.
ISSN:0835-3433
1929-6657