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From Lapland to Sápmi: Virtual Book Talk with Barbara Sjoholm

Join us for a virtual talk with Barbara Sjoholm on From Lapland to Sápmi! She'll discuss the book's exploration of the cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts, out in March 2023 from University of Minnesota Press.

Material objects—things made, used, and treasured—tell the story of a people and place. So it is for the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, whose story unfolds across borders and centuries, in museums and private collections. The objects created by the Sámi for daily and ceremonial use were purchased and taken by Scandinavians and foreign travelers in Lapland from the 17th century to the present, and the collections described in From Lapland to Sápmi map a complex history that is gradually shifting to a renaissance of Sámi culture and craft, along with the return of many historical objects to Sápmi, the Sámi homeland.

Deftly written and amply illustrated, with contextual notes on language and Nordic history, From Lapland to Sápmi brings to light the history of collecting, displaying, and returning Sámi material culture, as well as the story of Sámi creativity and individual and collective agency.

Please share audience questions in the Q&A or send them in advance to info@amscan.org. Select questions will be chosen for a Q&A following the conversation.​

Apr 18, 2023 07:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)