Sámi traditional medicine: practices, usage, benefit, accessibility and relation to conventional medicine, a scoping review study. [PDF]
Int J Circumpolar Health, 2021 Liu-Helmersson J, Ouma A.
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Journal of Intercultural Communication, 2011 Yoik is the old Sami form of music/singing produced according to old conventions and used in various communication contexts. A yoik referring to a particular person, a so-called person-yoik, constitutes a musical expression of that person and may be a more powerful symbol of identity and connectedness than a person’s name and may awaken memories ...
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Development of Cultural and Environmental Awareness Through Sámi Outdoor Life at Sámi/Indigenous Festivals. [PDF]
Front Sports Act Living, 2021 Skogvang BO.
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"I sound" - yoik as embodied health knowledge
, 2023 The earliest descriptions of yoik and Sami culture depict it as something the Sami would integrate into all their living: in daily life, mundane activities as well as spiritual, ritual, and ceremonial practices. Yoik was seen as something necessary for health, well-being, happiness, and success. In short, yoik was an existential necessity.
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Singing the Individual: Name Tunes in Oyda and Yopno. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Amha A, Slotta J, Sarvasy HS.
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New music system reveals spectral contribution to statistical learning. [PDF]
Cognition, 2022 Loui P.
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The Craft of Yoiking: Philosophical Variations on Sámi Chants
, 2020 The yoik is a vocal technique practised by the Sámi of Northern Europe. It relies on circular melodies, chanted in everyday life and a cappella, with or without lyrics. Each melody evokes a particular being, usually a person, an animal species, or a place.
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Universality, domain-specificity, and development of psychological responses to music. [PDF]
Nat Rev Psychol, 2023 Singh M, Mehr SA.
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Sámi Yoik and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat: An Ethnographic Study of Music as a Medium for Activism
, 2023 Sámi yoik and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat are the subjects of this thesis, which examines music as a form of activism through an ethnographic lens. The study's primary focus is an anthropological examination of Sámi music performances and oral histories. The Sámi are an indigenous people that live in northern Fennoscandia, which includes Norway, Finland ...
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Complex Yoiks – A Time Traveller : Aboriginal Oral Traditions Among the Sámi in Sweden
, 2021 Section VI: Art & Culture in ...
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