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Acta Borealia Acta Borealia is a multi-disciplinary scientific journal for cultural studies. Articles and book reviews are published in English. E-mail: [email protected]

The journal presents results from basic research on northern societies, including reviews of new books about the north. The contributing authors are mainly from the Nordic countries, but also from other countries performing research on circumpolar societies. The journal publishes articles in such disciplines as history, archaeology, social anthropology, ethnography, geography and linguistics. Acta

Borealia is edited by a group of scholars at the University of Tromsø, and is the only journal dedicated exclusively to a multidisciplinary, comparative focus on circumpolar societies. Topics of primary concern are

* ethnic relations
* settlement patterns and developments
* economy
* political, cultural and social phenomena from prehistoric times to the recent past.

15/11/2024

Acta Borealia 2024(2) has now been published on-line. Again we have a special theme number -- "Indigenous Research Data Governance in Sápmi" -- in which questions of managing data related to Indigenous peoples is central. Some of the articles pertain to Sámi peoples in northern Fennoscandia (particularly Norway) while others address Indigenous data issues in Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand. There is an introduction, five articles, and a commentary:

Susanna R.A. Siri and Per Axelsson
(Introduction) Indigenous Research Data Governance in Sápmi

Erin Corston, Gonzague Guéranger & Donna Lyons
Exercising Rights Over Data: A Journey Towards First Nations Data Sovereignty in Canada

Riley Taitingfong, Andrew Martinez, Maui Hudson, Raymond Lovett, Bobby Maher, Jacob Prehn, Robyn K. Rowe, Kayla Boileau, Aaron Franks, Sadia Khan, Jennifer D. Walker & Stephanie Russo Carroll
Aligning Policy and Practice to Implement CARE with FAIR Through Indigenous Peoples’ Protocols

Else Grete Broderstad & Eva Josefsen
Who Governs Our Stories? The Collected Material of the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen, Lene Antonsen, Linda Wiechetek & Trond Trosterud
Indigenous Language Technology in the Age of Machine Learning

Susanna Ragnhild A. Siri, Marita Melhus & Ann Ragnhild Broderstad
The Governance of the SAMINOR Study and Integration of the CARE Principles

Rune Fjellheim
Commentary on the SODA Principles and their Implications for Sámi Data Management

30/05/2024

Acta Borealia volume 41(1) 2024, has now been published on-line. The issue is a special theme number on "Sustaining Local Practices," which consists of an Introduction and five articles:

Pasi Heikkurinen & Johanna Hohenthal: Sustaining local practices: introductory remarks

Tim Ingold: How to imagine a sustainable world

Pasi Takkinen & Pasi Heikkurinen: Peripheral sustainability expertise on technology: an autoethnography amidst the polycrisis

Johanna Hohenthal & Toni Ruuska: Disclosing the sacred in technological practices for sustainability

Heini Salonen, Milla Suomalainen & Jarkko Pyysiäinen: Learning to relocalize: institutional entrepreneurs as transformative agents in public food services

Pauli Pylkkö: Premodern handcraft skills foster a language which opens an experiential pathway to local nature

06/11/2023

Acta Borealia (2023) Volume 40(2) has been published on-line with the following articles (note: without final running order and pagination):

Inger Pedersen & Randi Kaarhus: Knowing a coastal Sámi landscape in Finnmark: transmission and regeneration of knowledge and identity across three generations

Petter I. Larsson, Teija Alenius & Kristin Ilves: Versatility as a cultural niche: palynological evidence on Iron Age and medieval land use on the Åland Islands

Samona Nikolaevna Kurilova, Irena Semenovna Khokholova, Boris Yakovlevich Osipov & Jessica Kantarovich: Folklore narratives on the toponymy of the Russian Far North (Based on the Yukaghir, Even, and Yakut languages)

Jens Petter Nielsen & Victoria V. Tevlina: In the northern periphery of Russia abroad. The Norwegian destiny of Anatol Ye. Heintz (1898–1975), palaeontologist and native of St Petersburg

03/05/2023

Acta Borealia (2023) Volume 40(1)
This new number is now available with the following articles:

Gyrid Øyen and Trine Kvidal-Røvik: Contextual sites of acknowledgement? Kven heritage and contemporary identity articulation processes. p. 1-18.

Lisbeth Skogstrand: Round or square? Ethnic processes and Saami dwelling practices in Hallingdal, southern Norway. p. 19-45.

Erlend Kirkeng Jørgensen: Technological organization and initial production stages of a maritime slate tradition: insights from the first investigated Stone Age slate source in Arctic Europe (the Djupvik slate formation, Norway). p. 46-77.

Fabio Ferrarini: Arctic science and politics in Fascist Italy. Italian polar expeditions and the International Polar Exhibition in the interwar years. p. 78-94.

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