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.

Foreword | David G. Anderson
Preface | Earle Waugh
Acknowledgements
Map of Sápmi
Introduction | Barbara Helen Miller

1 Constituting Scholarly Versions of a “Sámi Folk Medicine”
Research Practices in the Colonial Contact Zone | Stein R. Mathisen
2 Secrecy in Sámi Traditional Healing | Anne Karen Hætta
3 Traditional Sámi Healing
Heritage and Gifts of Grace | Marit Myrvoll
4 Dynamics of Naming
Examples from Porsanger | Barbara Helen Miller
5 Multiple Views from Finnmark | Kjell Birkely Andersen, Sigvald Persen, and Barbara Helen Miller
6 “Suffering in Body and Soul”
Lived Life and Experiences of Local Food Change in the Russian Arctic | Trine Kvitberg
7 The Paradox of Home
Understanding Northern Troms as a Therapeutic Landscape | Mona Anita Kiil
8 Keeping Doors Open
Everyday Life Between Knowledge Systems in the Markebygd Areas | Randi Nymo
9 Gifts of Dreams
Connecting to Sámi Epistemic Practice | Britt Kramvig

Contributors
Index