Knowing from the Indigenous North

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. Sanna Valkonen is a Sámi scholar and Associate Professor of Sámi Research at the University of Lapland, Finland. Jarno Valkonen is a Sámi scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Lapland, Finland.

• 1. Introduction 2. On local Knowledge 3. Evasive strategies of defiance – everyday resistance histories among the Sámi 4. Returning home – the different ontologies of the Sámi collections 5. The paradox of autonomy 6. Belonging to Sápmi – the Sámi conceptions of home and home region 7. Reindeer herding, snowmobiles and social change – and a word on identity 8. The North is everywhere 9. 'I’ll show you the tundra' – the Sámi as an Indigenous people in the political thought of Nils-Aslak Valkeapää 10. Conceptual governance on defining indigeneity – the Sámi debate in Finland 11. The politics of belonging in the Indigenous North