TY - GEN AU - Fonneland,Trude AU - Ragazzi,Rossella AU - Fonneland,Trude AU - Ragazzi,Rossella TI - Memory Institutions and Sámi Heritage: Decolonization, Restitution, and Rematriation in Sápmi T2 - Memory Studies: Global Constellations SN - 9781003426318 PY - 2024/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Cultural studies KW - bicssc KW - Colonialism and imperialism KW - Museology and heritage studies KW - Sociology KW - Ethnic studies KW - repatriation KW - restitution KW - appropriation KW - heritage KW - cultural heritage KW - artefacts KW - museums KW - archives KW - museology KW - libraries KW - Sami KW - Norway KW - Scandinavia KW - case studies KW - decolonisation KW - decolonization KW - Sápmi KW - Sámi KW - Sámi peoples KW - healing KW - anthropology KW - sociology KW - museum studies KW - cultural studies N1 - Open Access N2 - With a focus on Sápmi – the transcultural and transnational homeland of the Sámi people – this book presents case studies and theoretical frameworks which explore the ways in which memory institutions such as museums, archives, and festivals participate in and guide processes of appropriation, decolonization, and memory-making. The destruction and concealment of Sámi objects in both private and museum collections worldwide have impacted Sámi knowledge systems, disrupting local ways of knowing. Appreciation and reappropriation are important acts of decolonization which seek to create openings for reconnection to traditions, languages, and practices that were forcibly suppressed in the past. Western memory institutions such as museums, archives, and galleries have had a great impact on how heritage has been collected, stored, conserved, and organized within closed walls and glass cases. As the new museology movement developed in the 1990s, numerous examples revealed how difficult it became for researchers and public alike to access heritage. Considering the proliferation of cultural interventions and the growth of Sámi mobilization, which calls into question assumptions about how best to activate and experience Sámi cultural heritage and what constitutes appropriate stewardship, this book sheds light on initiatives to return artefacts to the Sámi community. With particular attention to the ways in which Sámi self-determination and the shifting boundaries between Indigenous and settler identities are articulated, challenged, and renegotiated, it draws on approaches from critical museology and Indigenous methodologies to explore the initiation, experience, and operationalizing of restitution projects. This book will therefore appeal to scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and museum and heritage studies, as well as to those interested in questions of repatriation, restitution, and healing processes UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102740/1/9781040261866.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160659 ER -