Anthropological Places, Digital Spaces, and Imaginary Scapes: Packaging a Digital Sámiland

Cocq, Coppélie

doi:10.1080/0015587x.2012.753695

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“…Critical discourse analysis [18] with the focus on the text as an expression of discourse and as an element of social event [18. P. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] is applied as the methodological approach to the study of the Kola Sámi self-descriptions. Following Fairclough's approach, the texts are considered in the relation to both the context and the authors producing and publishing them [18.…”

Section: Ethnographic Self-descriptions Of the Kola Sa MImentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproducing and shifting discourses on indigenous culture: Ethnographic self-descriptions of the Kola Sámi

Kuropjatnik

2023

Vestnik Rossijskogo universiteta druzhby narodov. Serija Sociol

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The article considers ethnographic self-descriptions as a cultural form in which indigenous authors conceptualise their culture in the shifting social contexts. Ethnographic selfdescriptions present (a) the transformation of the oral-discursive practices of indigenous culture into text; (b) the interpretation of the scientific versions of culture by indigenous authors. The author focuses on how Sámi culture is conceptualized in the text and as the written text by Sámi authors, taking into account the scientific descriptions of their culture and non-discursive cultural forms (such as ethnographic collections). In the texts of indigenous authors, anthropological versions of culture become a source for reproducing some patterns of culture’s conceptualization as relevant to a particular tradition in social sciences. Thus, ethnographic self-descriptions are interpreted in terms of intertextuality with an emphasis on relations between oral and written discourse, academic and indigenous discourse, discursive and non-discursive practices. Texts as a part of cultural reality or as elements of social events have causal effects which contribute to changes in the perception of Sámi culture and in the ways it is represented in the indigenous perspective, i.e., texts participate in the reproduction, creation and modification of numerous discourses on the Kola Sámi culture. In the ethnographic self-description of many Kola Sámi, ‘culture’ can be recontextualized by actors. Moreover, positions and identity of the observer (the author) and the observed (indigenous people) are partly connected, which implies a change in the epistemological status of the indigenous discourse. The processual approach to the cultural conceptualization and the focus on indigenous insights presented in the ethnographic self-descriptions constitute the methodological basis for examining some contemporary cultural trends of the Kola Sámi (Russia). The author analyses the published texts of the contemporary Kola Sámi authors, who are not professional anthropologists.

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Section: Ethnographic Self-descriptions Of the Kola Sa MImentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproducing and shifting discourses on indigenous culture: Ethnographic self-descriptions of the Kola Sámi

Kuropjatnik

2023

Vestnik Rossijskogo universiteta druzhby narodov. Serija Sociol

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“…Looking at Indigenous new media that embed Indigenous self-understanding, systems of knowledge, priorities, and perspectives at the core of their production helps to nuance mythologizing notions of Sámi identity. The work of Coppélie Cocq, for example, explores how “place” is constructed in Sámi digital environments to reveal placemaking itself as a narrative practice that emerges in relationship to contemporary Sámi identity discourses (Cocq, 2013, p. 1).…”

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Recentering Indigenous Epistemologies Through Digital Games: Sámi Perspectives on Nature in Rievssat (2018)

Nijdam

2022

Games and Culture

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This article examines Rievssat (2018), one of the six games developed during the 2018 Sami Game Jam, as a case study to demonstrate how digital games on Indigenous issues afford opportunities to embed Indigenous ways of knowing into the core of game design. In particular, by exploring Rievssat’s themes and game mechanics, this article identifies the way its procedural rhetoric models an understanding of and relationship to the game environment that reflects the dialogic connection with nature and animistic worldview unique to the Sámi people. This article thereby demonstrates the value of new media in recentering Indigenous systems of knowledge and cultural practices by engaging with and incorporating Indigenous epistemologies into the foundation of game design, revealing how Sámi digital games can offer insight into Sámi ways of knowing and experiencing the world to Indigenous and non-Indigenous players alike.

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“…This study is the offspring of a project investigating the role of the Internet in Sámi revitalisation, which focuses on self-representation and place-making in digital environments (Cocq 2013b) and on the continuity of storytelling (Cocq 2013c). In addition to the study of Sámi websites, empirical data were collected through surveys and interviews in order to include the website users' perspectives.…”

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Traditionalisation for Revitalisation: Tradition as a Concept and Practice in Contemporary Sámi Contexts

Cocq¹

2014

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TradiTionalisaTion for reviTalisaTion:TradiTion as a concepT and pracTice in conTemporary sámi conTexTs Coppélie Cocqabstract: This article investigates the use of 'tradition' as a concept in indigenous discourses and as a label of practices within revitalisation processes, using the case of the Sámi in Sweden as an example. By approaching emic applications of the concept, the article aims at emphasising processual and consequential aspects of 'tradition'.This study illustrates how traditionalisation takes place through the processes of negotiation of identities, globalisation and authority, as well as through the institutionalisation of vernacular practices. It is a double-edged process, including and excluding, which is balanced with creative initiatives striving for keeping traditions alive rather than frozen in time.

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Anthropological Places, Digital Spaces, and Imaginary Scapes: Packaging a Digital Sámiland

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Reproducing and shifting discourses on indigenous culture: Ethnographic self-descriptions of the Kola Sámi

Reproducing and shifting discourses on indigenous culture: Ethnographic self-descriptions of the Kola Sámi

Recentering Indigenous Epistemologies Through Digital Games: Sámi Perspectives on Nature in Rievssat (2018)

Traditionalisation for Revitalisation: Tradition as a Concept and Practice in Contemporary Sámi Contexts

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