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Sami yoik, Sami history, Sami health: a narrative review [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2018 Music as a possible health-promoting agent has attained increasing academic and scientific interest over the last decades. Nonetheless, possible connections between indigenous singing traditions and health beyond traditional ceremonial healing practices ...
Frauke Musial +2 more
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Yoik experiences and possible positive health outcomes: an explorative pilot study [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2017 Background: Yoik is an old vocal music tradition of Sami, the indigenous people inhabiting Northern Fennoscandia and Kola peninsula in Russia. Studies of music therapy (MT) and especially singing have documented improvements in social and overall ...
Frauke Musial +2 more
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VUOIŊŊALAŠVUOHTA—Sámi Spirituality, Yoik and Its Relations [PDF]
Religions, 2020 The subject of identity is important in today’s political landscape. This article explores the way in which indigenous identity in particular is a contested subject, taking into account the way indigeneity in itself was, and still is, created within ...
Tuula Sharma Vassvik
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The art of yoik in care: Sami caregivers’ experiences in dementia care in Northern Norway [PDF]
Nordic Journal of Arts Culture and Health, 2020 Purpose: Yoik is the traditional vocal art of the Sami, the indigenous people of Fennoscandia. The Sami people, their land and their culture have been subject to colonisation and assimilation for centuries, hence the practice of yoik was lost in many ...
Frauke Musial +2 more
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Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik
American Anthropologist, 2022 Abstract This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, associated with a specific being (typically a person ...
Stephane Aubinet
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Sámi traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine – a descriptive study of use within the Sámi population of Sweden [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2023 Traditional medicine has been practised for millennia in the Sámi population, based on a Sámi worldview and cosmology, which includes natural remedies, prayers, drums and yoik singing.
Anne Ouma +2 more
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Yoik in Sami elderly and dementia care – a potential for culturally sensitive music therapy? [PDF]
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 2021 Introduction: The positive impact of familiar, individualized and patient-preferred music in dementia care is acknowledged in the literature.
Anita Salamonsen +2 more
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The Secretive Text: Yoik Lyrics as Literature and Tradition
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 1999 Harald Gaski
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Enchantment and non-human voices in the Sámi yoik [PDF]
Cahiers De Littérature Orale, 2020 The yoik is a vocal technique used by the Sámi people in the northernmost part of Europe. It consists in short circular melodies chanted a cappella and intended to make a person, an animal, or a place present. In the view of many “yoikers,” it is a gift received from the environment that you learn through participation and experimentation.
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