Northern Cultural History (5cr)

Objective

After completion of the course the student is able to
- distinguish disciplinary traditions of Finnish cultural history, with special emphasis on contemporary Finnish New Cultural History and Northern cultural history, and its methodological questions
- distinguish special features and challenges of Northern cultural history and cultural history of Sámi people as a part of larger context of cultural history.

Content

Viewpoints on Northern history, people and society, culture, art and religion.

Qualifications

No previous studies required.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Fail: Performance is highly deficient or erroneous. The work may be based on serious misunderstandings.

Sufficient and satisfactory (1-2): Performance is lacking in scope, superficial, or corresponds poorly to the assignment. The author merely lists things out of context or addresses them one-sidedly. The work may contain errors or obscurities.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good and very good (3-4): Performance corresponds to the assignment, manifesting comprehension and a skill to analyse and justify. The author has addressed the issue comprehensively. The work may contain some deficiencies.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5): Performance delineates an extensive whole and the author can apply knowledge in a multifaceted way or place it in various contexts. The work manifests independency and insight, and it is a flawless entity that involves justified thinking or critical contemplation. The work is well written and implemented.

Materials

One of the following sets of books/articles are to be read for the exam.

1. Tuominen, Marja (28.2.2005). We call the past to support our present. Views on times and on the experience of times. See http://www.ulapland.fi/loader.aspx?id=d6e4cac8-14d6-41b3-b2f6-527475f01e6e.
Johnson, Bruce & Kiiskinen, Harri (eds) (2011). They Do Things Differently There. Essays on Cultural History. (Also available as an e-book.)
Tuominen, Marja, Ashplant, T. G. & Harjumaa, Tiina (eds) (2021). Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes. Silent Post-War Memory in the Margins of History. (Available both in print and as e-book.)

2. Tuominen, Marja (28.2.2005). We call the past to support our present. Views on times and on the experience of times. See http://www.ulapland.fi/loader.aspx?id=d6e4cac8-14d6-41b3-b2f6-527475f01e6e.
Lehtola, Veli-Pekka (2002). Sámi people. Traditions in transition.
Lehtola, Veli-Pekka (2015). Sámi Histories, Colonialism, and Finland. In Arctic Anthropology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 22–36. See https://www.veli-pekkalehtola.fi/UserFiles/files/ArcticAnthropology%20Lehtola( 1).pdf.
Lehtola, Veli-Pekka (2018). Our histories in the photographs of the others. Sámi approaches to visual materials in archives. Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, VOL. 10, 1431501. See https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2018.1431501.
Ashplant, Timothy (2021). Post-War Cultural Reconstruction and the Nation. In Marja Tuominen, Timothy Ashplant & Tiina Harjumaa (eds) Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes. Silent Post-War memory in the Margins of History, 17–40.
Lehtola, Veli-Pekka (2015). Second World War as a trigger for transcultural changes among Sámi people in Finland, Acta Borealia, 32:2, 125–147. See https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2015.1089673.

Execution methods

Independent studying and a literature exam or an essay based on the required literature and supplementary reading.

Accomplishment methods

Independent studying and a literature exam or an essay based on the required literature and supplementary reading. One of the following sets of books/articles are to be read for the exam. The exam literature also serves as subsidiary reading for the essay. Possible substituting lecture series will be announced in Peppi.