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Why Sami Sing - Knowing through Melodies in Northern Norway (Hardcover)
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Why Sami Sing - Knowing through Melodies in Northern Norway (Hardcover)
Series: Arctic Worlds
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Why Sami Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice
found among the Indigenous Sami people, living in the northernmost
part of Europe. It inquires how the performance of melodies, with
or without lyrics, may be a way of altering perception, relating to
human and non-human presences, or engaging with the past. According
to its practitioners, the Sami "yoik" is more than a musical
repertoire made up by humans: it is a vocal power received from the
environment, one that reveals its possibilities with parsimony
through practice and experience. Following the propensity of Sami
singers to take melodies seriously and experiment with them, this
book establishes a conversation between Indigenous and Western
epistemologies and introduces the "yoik" as a way of knowing in its
own right, with both convergences and divergences vis-a-vis
academic ways of knowing. It will be of particular interest to
scholars of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and Indigenous studies.
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