Lars Hætta’s miniature world: Sámi prison op-art autoethnography
This article examines a collection of miniature objects, now held in museum collections, which were originally made by a Sámi political prisoner in Norway during the mid-19th century as part of an educational programme. The author draws on recent developments in the theory of miniaturization to cons...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
[2018]
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Journal of material culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 280-294 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia TJ Modern history |
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| Summary: | This article examines a collection of miniature objects, now held in museum collections, which were originally made by a Sámi political prisoner in Norway during the mid-19th century as part of an educational programme. The author draws on recent developments in the theory of miniaturization to consider these miniatures as examples of prison op-art autoethnography: communicative devices which seek to address broad and complex social issues through the process of the creation and distribution of semiophorically functionless mimetic objects of reduced scale and complexity, and which reflect the restrictions of incarcerated artistic expression and the questions this raises regarding authenticity and hybridity. |
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| ISSN: | 1460-3586 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of material culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1359183517745716 |