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Best of the Sámi Film Festival 2008
Author(s) -
COOL ALISON
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01080_2.x
Subject(s) - indigenous , context (archaeology) , ethnography , ethnology , identity (music) , foundation (evidence) , history , media studies , resource (disambiguation) , anthropology , art history , geography , genealogy , archaeology , sociology , art , ecology , aesthetics , biology , computer network , computer science
In June of 2008, the American‐Scandinavian Foundation and the National Museum of the American Indian presented a screening of selections originally shown at the 12th annual Sámi Film Festival held in Norway. This marked the first time that a version of the festival, which features works by and about the indigenous peoples of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, was presented in New York. Three of the films shown— Last Yoik in Saami Forests?, Herdswoman, and Calmmis Calbmái ( From an Eye to an Eye) —examined how Sámi communities draw on shared traditions as a productive resource for reimagining Sámi identity in a contemporary context. [Keywords: Sámi, Scandinavia, indigenous media, ethnographic film]