Browsing Master's theses in indigenous studies by Author "Hætta, Anne Karen"
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Secret knowledge : the management and transformation of traditional healing knowledge in the Marka Sámi villages
Hætta, Anne Karen (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-09-01)This thesis discusses Sámi traditional healing knowledge regarding the debate of preserving traditional knowledge, and aims to examine the management and the challenges of transformation of it in a particular Sami community: namely the Marka villages in southern Troms and northern Nordland, Norway. Traditional healing knowledge is held secret or esoteric, which means that only a line of individual ...