Book release: "Idioms of Sámi Health and healing"

Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing

Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing Series

By Barbara Helen Miller, Stein R. Mathisen, Anne Karen Haetta, Marit Myrvoll, Trine Kvitberg, Mona Anita Kiil, Randi Inger Johanne Nymo, Kjell Birkely Andersen, Britt Kramvig and Sigvald Persen

Description of the book from The University of Alberta Press:

"The Sámi—indigenous people of northernmost Europe—have relied on traditional healing methods over generations. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and demonstrates the effectiveness of using the resources local communities can provide. This collection of essays by ten experts also records how ancient healing traditions and modern health-care systems have worked together, and sometimes competed, to provide solutions for local problems. Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing is one of the first English-language studies of the traditional healing methods among the Sámi, and offers valuable insight and academic context to those in the fields of anthropology, medical anthropology, transcultural psychiatry, and circumpolar studies. Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing is the second volume in the Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing series."