Cultural-historical research on Saami book collections: database


Capdeville, Sophie Alix. Cultural-historical research on Saami book collections: database. V. 16.11.2022.


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All authors: Capdeville, Sophie Alix

Funders: Kalevi Kuitunen Foundation

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Description of the dataset

Description: The dataset consists of a collection of archived documents on the provenance information of the Saami book collections of Finland and of materials produced based upon them, such as a database of Saami book collections.

The research of the history of the Saami book collections of Finland aims to analyse their "provenance" information. The provenance research methodology provides a better understanding of the Saami book history, with the cross-analysis of bookmarks with archival material, which can enlighten the use of books by different owners or other readers: it can help us refine our estimation of the situation of the book history in the Saami-speaking areas of Finland. The study of book collections of different institutions (libraries, churches, or museums) collection shall provide a better overview of work that has been done at the time of the translations and the publication of first Saami books. The gathered information will be saved in a database, the outcome of which is to ensure access first to Saami but also to other researchers.

This research aims to enlighten both Saami written culture and their reading history: this analysis of archives’ documents can provide a better overview of the use of the first Saami translations in Finland. Another important point of view is to enlighten the importance of the Saami-speakers in this book history, which has been too often neglected by too many historians. This research has to be conducted in cooperation with Saami institutions.

Language: Finnish; English; Sami; Northern Sami; Inari Sami; French

Free keywords: Saami Written culture, Saami culture history, book collections, Finnish book history, endangered languages

Keywords (YSO): Sami speakers; Sami language literature; Sámi languages; book history; endangered languages; decolonisation

Fields of science: 615 History and Archaeology; 616 Other humanities; 520 Other social sciences; 6121 Languages; 6122 Literature studies

Do you deal with data concerning special categories of personal data in your research?: No


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