Thomas A. DuBois

University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Sámi culture is an integral part of my research and figures in several of my books, as well as in a number of articles I have written. I am particularly interested in continuities of tradition among Sámi people and the significance of an indigenous identity in contemporary Sámi culture and activism.

Conference presentation, Harvard University, November, 2010 HERE

My presentation at Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, Washington, October, 2012 "The First Sámi Book: Johan Turi's Account of the Sámi One Hundred Years Later" can be heard as an audio file on Julie Whitehorn's Pacific Sámi Searvi blog page

http://pacificsearvi.wordpress.com/recommended-reading/

 

  

Conference presentation, Sajos Sámi Cultural Centre, Inari Finland, November 2012; my talk, in Finnish, is in the stream SEMINAARI3, starting at minute 30; there is a great stream of the evening yoik concert too, so check it out even if you don't know Finnish!

HERE

 
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Sámi Culture

Nordic Religions in the Viking Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Lyric, Meaning and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2006.

An Introduction to Shamanism. Introduction to Religion. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

 

"Varieties of Medical Treatment and Hierarchies of Resort in Johan Turi's Sámi deavsttat" Forthcoming, Journal of Northern Studies.

Translation:

Johan Turi. An Account of the Sámi.

Chicago: Nordic Studies Press, 2011.

"Taking Place. Place in the Construction of History in Nordic Literature" in The Angel of History: Literature, History and Culture. Ed. Vesa Haapala, Hannamari Helander, Anna Hollsten, Pirjo Lyytikäinen and Rita Paqvalén. Helsinki: Department of Finnish Literature, University of Helsinki. Pp. 83-101.

"With an End in Sight: Sympathetic Portrayals of 'Vanishing' Sámi Life in the Works of Karl Nickul and Andreas Alariesto" Scandinavian Studies 75/2 (2003): 181-200.

"Folklore, Boundaries and Audience in The Pathfinder" in Sami Folkloristics. Ed. Juha Pentikäinen. Turku: NIF, 2000. Pp. 255-274.

"Seidr, Sagas and Saami: The Nature and Significance of Religious Exchange in the Viking Age" in Northern Peoples, Southern States: Maintaining Ethnicities in the Circumpolar World. Ed. Robert Wheelersburg. CERUM Northern Studies 1. Umeå: CERUM, 1996. Pp. 43-66.

"Insider and Outsider: An Inari Saami Case" Scandinavian Studies 67(1)(Winter 1995): 63-77.