Why Sámi Sing

Knowing through Melodies in Northern Norway
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-35619-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 289 g

Reihe: Arctic Worlds

Why Sámi Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice found among the Indigenous Sámi people, living in the northernmost part of Europe. It inquires how the performance of melodies, with or without lyrics, may be a way of altering perception, relating to human and non-human presences, or engaging with the past. According to its practitioners, the Sámi "yoik" is more than a musical repertoire made up by humans: it is a vocal power received from the environment, one that reveals its possibilities with parsimony through practice and experience. Following the propensity of Sámi singers to take melodies seriously and experiment with them, this book establishes a conversation between Indigenous and Western epistemologies and introduces the "yoik" as a way of knowing in its own right, with both convergences and divergences vis-à-vis academic ways of knowing. It will be of particular interest to scholars of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and Indigenous studies.

*Honourable Mention - International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance Book Prize 2024*

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aubinet, Stéphane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Introduction

1 Presence Leahkit

Part II Knowing the Environment

2 Horizon Luondu

3 Appetition Geaidit

4 Enchantment Gierran

5 Score Luodda

Part III Knowing the Past

6 Echo Skádja

7 Primordial Eamifápmu

Part IV Conclusion

8 Recursivity Gierdu

Appendix A List of place names

Appendix B List of interviews and yoik courses

Über Autor(innen)

Stéphane Aubinet is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo, Norway.