Nederlanske antropolog Barbara Miller er visst den første i Norge som har skrevet doktoravhandling om samisk healing og kulturtradisjone, hun retter fokus mot læstadianske sjøsametradisjoner. Mange her lurer på ymse fra miljøer som disse, og Miller kan sikkert gi litt mer innsikt.
Første doktor i samisk healing : http://www.finnmarkdagblad.no/nyheter/a ... 893494.ece
Info hentet fra http://www.cnwspublications.com/ :
Barbara H. Miller, Connecting and Correcting: A Case Study of Sami Healers in Porsanger. ISBN 978-90-5789-151-9. 300 pp. ill. € 38,00 (CNWS Publications Vol. 151)
Connecting and Correcting is a case study of Sami healers in Porsanger, Finnmark, Norway, and focuses on two Coastal Sami healers, their worldview and healing practices. Barbara Miller explores the cultural and historic context of Sami healing practices, most notably Sami folk beliefs, the Laestadian branch of Lutheranism, and the changes in the discourse on the noaidi , a Sami term that is often translated as ?shaman'. As she point out, healers today may be connected historically to the noaidi of the past, but they cannot be identified with the noaidi . The healers are Christian and conceive of their healing gift as a special connection to God. This gift resembles important Laestadian concepts. In Laestadianism the ?congregation of the reborn' holds the Keys to Heaven, which are the binding and unbinding keys received from the Savior.
Barbara Miller conducted fieldwork from 1995-2006 and made extensive interviews with healers and their patients. These interviews comprise a great part of the book. She was in the rare position to witness the transfer of the healing gift between her two main informants, a process that occurred in the years 2000-2002.
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