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EUR 29,59
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 168 pp., hardcover Format: 17x24 cm. Do we know anything about the indigenous religion of the Western Sami during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? In fact, there are several types of sources at hand, and this book discusses the most important of them. Thus, it proposes a terminology for the places of sacrifice, argues that any interpretation of the figures on Sami drums must be based on the preserved explanations of the owners, presents a hypothesis concerning the interrelations and geographical distribution of the accounts written by missionaries, and gives examples of how terminologies, dialect geography, and place names can be used to supplement other sources. The book also examines earlier research about the connections between the indigenous religions of the Sami and the Scandinavians, and Sami ideas about the ritual landscape and the most important ritual specialist, the noaidi. All in all, the ten chapters exemplify methodological problems faced by any student of the cultural history of the Sami. They suggest ways to deconstruct some of the traditional. Codice articolo PGNOV135