%0 Journal Article
%T Collecting, connecting, constructing: Early modern commodification and globalization of S¨¢mi material culture
%A Carl-G£¿sta Ojala
%A Jonas M Nordin
%J Journal of Material Culture
%@ 1460-3586
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1359183517741663
%X This article analyses the role of material culture in the enforcing of a colonial order in early modern S¨¢pmi (Land of the S¨¢mi, the indigenous people in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in Russia). In addition, the article focuses on the unequal power relations created through the collecting and cultural appropriation of S¨¢mi objects. The 17th century saw a rapid growth of interest in the S¨¢mi and their material culture. Clothing, sledges, ceremonial drums and other objects were collected for royal and noble courts of Europe, as well as for scholars and other collectors. This Eurocentric process of constructing S¨¢miness was concurrent with colonial attitudes towards non-European peoples. Empirically, the article explores the collecting of S¨¢mi objects, clothes and religious/sacred material culture such as ceremonial drums and sieidis, as well as models and mannequins, and their role in the colonial rule and imperial representations of S¨¢pmi
%K 17th century
%K ceremonial drums
%K collecting
%K colonialism
%K S¨¢mi
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359183517741663