Ecological Sustainability in Traditional Sámi Beliefs and Rituals

The book gives a detailed overview of relevant traditional indigenous Sámi myths, beliefs and rituals based on empirical findings. The author inquires whether and how they are related to an ecologically sustainable use of the natural environment. Her main sources are ancient missionary texts, writings by Sámi and contemporary interviews with Sámi individuals. The traditional value system included ecological sustainability as a survival strategy. Beliefs and rituals, transmitted via stories, incorporated these values and transmitted a feeling of a round life, despite the strict rules for right behavior and punishment for transgressions. The term round symbolized a sense of safety, interconnectedness, reliance on mutual help and respect, identification and empathy with all living beings.

Info autore

Mardoeke Boekraad studied biology and French language and literature in Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris as well as religion at the University of Bergen (Norway) and Umeå (Sweden). She is committed to environmental issues both on a private and on a professional level.

Relazione

«This book compiles selected written documentation augmented by contemporary voices about Saami in their Saapmi Umwelt, showing how inner values, cultural ritual, and the natural environment sustain their own enduring dance.»
(Myrdene Anderson, Anthropos 112.2017.2 )

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Gerhard Droesser (Editore), Ruth Hutzel (Editore)
• Autori: Mardoeke Boekraad
• Editore: Peter Lang
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 31.03.2016
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Teologia pratica
• EAN: 9783631665985
• ISBN: 978-3-631-66598-5
• Numero di pagine: 166
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.8 x 1.6 x 21 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 320 g
• Serie: Moderne - Kulturen - Relationen > .20; Moderne - Kulturen - Relationen > 20; Moderne ¿ Kulturen ¿ Relationen > 20
• Categorie: Mythologie, Ethik, Geschichte, Kelten, Kulturwissenschaften, Historie, Lappland, Keltische Religion und Mythologie, Römische Religion und Mythologie, Andere Weltreligionen, Völkerkunde, Cultural Studies, Weltreligionen, Altgriechische Religion und Mythologie, Ethos, Wissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaften, Religion / Weltreligionen, Philosophie / Ethik, Griechenland (Antike) / Mythologie, Götterwelt, Religion, Kulte, Ethnologie - Ethnisch, Ethnografie - Ethnographie, Antike (griechisch-römisch) / Religion, Kulte, Antike (griechisch-römisch) / Mythologie, Götterwelt, Altnordische Religion und Mythologie, indigenous religion; sacred animals; Sámi people