Categories and boundaries in Sámi exhibitions

Categories and boundaries in speech and music*

Perceptual categories and boundaries arise when Ss respond to continuous variation on a physical dimension in a discontinuous fashion. It is more difficult to discriminate between members of the same category than to discriminate between members of different categories, even though the amount of physical difference between both pairs is the same. Speech stimuli have been the sole class of audit...

Universal Foci and Varying Boundaries in Linguistic Color Categories

Recent research has questioned the universal basis of color categorization and has instead emphasized cross-linguistic variation in boundaries of color categories. We propose that these cross-linguistically varying boundaries can be predicted from near-universal focal colors within the categories. In support of this proposal, we show that: (1) best example choices for color terms in 110 unwritt...

Multimedia in Exhibitions

Healing in the Sámi North

There is a special emphasis today on integrating traditional healing within health services. However, most areas in which there is a system of traditional healing have undergone colonization and a number of pressures suppressing tradition for hundreds of years. The question arises as to how one can understand today's tradition in light of earlier traditions. This article is based on material co...

Which Sámi? Sámi inclusion criteria in population-based studies of Sámi health and living conditions in Norway – an exploratory study exemplified with data from the SAMINOR study

BACKGROUND In a situation where national censuses do not record information on ethnicity, studies of the indigenous Sámi people's health and living conditions tend to use varying Sámi inclusion criteria and categorizations. Consequently, the basis on which Sámi study participants are included and categorized when Sámi health and living conditions are explored and compared differs. This may infl...