Ecological Sustainability in Traditional Sámi Beliefs and Rituals

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.

• Contents: Ecological Sustainability – Traditional Sámi Beliefs and Rituals – Indigenous belief, rituals and nature – Indigenous religion and ecology – Sámi people – Superhuman agency – Animal shape shifting – Animal ancestry – Sacred animals – Sacred landscape – Underground people – Animal Species-Related Protection Spirits.

«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 )