Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing

Barbara Helen Miller, PhD in Anthropology from Leiden University (the Netherlands) is currently an independent scholar, working in co-operation with the Research Group Circumpolar Cultures. She received the Master of Arts in Psychology of Religion from the Norwich University, Vermont College (Montpelier, Vermont, USA) and the Diploma in Analytical Psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich (Küsnacht, Switzerland). Her most widely read publication is Connecting and Correcting, A Case Study of Sámi Healers in Porsanger. Leiden: CNWS (2007). Earle H. Waugh is Professor Emeritus and was Director of the Centre for the Centre for Health and Culture in the Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton upon his retirement.

"The essays in this collection are both erudite and fascinating and represent much detailed research by a number of scholars in Sámi affairs. The book should appeal to a wide audience, from those interested in forms of non-traditional medicine and alternative ways of healing, to those interested in the Sámi and northern cultures in general, as well as in Shamanism and wizardry." Astrid E.J. Ogilvie, Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, May 2017

• Foreword | David G. AndersonPreface | Earle WaughAcknowledgements Map of Sápmi Introduction | Barbara Helen Miller1 Constituting Scholarly Versions of a “Sámi Folk Medicine”Research Practices in the Colonial Contact Zone | Stein R. Mathisen2 Secrecy in Sámi Traditional Healing | Anne Karen Hætta3 Traditional Sámi HealingHeritage and Gifts of Grace | Marit Myrvoll4 Dynamics of NamingExamples from Porsanger | Barbara Helen Miller5 Multiple Views from Finnmark | Kjell Birkely Andersen, Sigvald Persen, and Barbara Helen Miller6 “Suffering in Body and Soul”Lived Life and Experiences of Local Food Change in the Russian Arctic | Trine Kvitberg7 The Paradox of HomeUnderstanding Northern Troms as a Therapeutic Landscape | Mona Anita Kiil8 Keeping Doors OpenEveryday Life Between Knowledge Systems in the Markebygd Areas | Randi Nymo9 Gifts of DreamsConnecting to Sámi Epistemic Practice | Britt KramvigContributors Index