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The Craft of Belonging: Material Culture and Social Boundaries in Sápmi

The Craft of Belonging: Material Culture and Social Boundaries in Sápmi

Magnani, Natalia
Magnani, Matthew

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AnthropologyGeneral SociologyIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 1487540663
ISBN13: 9781487540661
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

The Craft of Belonging explores the role of craft and its mediation of social boundaries, particularly in communities that are under state pressure. Anthropologists Matthew Magnani and Natalia Magnani blend anthropology and archaeology to explore the role of craft in community-making from prehistory to present with the Sámi, the Indigenous peoples of Northern Europe. Sápmi, the Sámi homeland, has sat at a material crossroads for millennia. Forests, tundras, and extended social networks offered raw materials autochthonous and imported. Wood, antler, cloth, and silver were crafted to cope with Arctic climates and state incursions. Integrating archaeological, ethnographic and Indigenous perspectives to reveal the transformative nature of material culture, The Craft of Belonging shows how long-term perspectives accentuate the shifting meanings and malleability of material social boundaries. Local agencies intersect with changing trade networks, colonialism and climate change, to resonate through the production, uses and signals of Sámi craft (duodji). This book thus contends that ancestral material cultures, far from static cultural domains, are innovative sites of social transformation used to assert rights to land, water, and community belonging.

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