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- Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer
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- 2017
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
In 1904 a young Danish woman met a Sami wolf hunter on a train in Sweden. This chance encounter transformed the lives of artist Emilie Demant and the hunter, Johan Turi. In 1907–8 Demant went to live with Sami families in their tents and on migrations, later writing a lively account of her experiences. She collaborated with Turi on his book about his people. On her own and later with her husband Gudmund Hatt, she roamed on foot through Sami regions as an ethnographer and folklorist. As an artist, she created many striking paintings with Sami motifs. Her exceptional life and relationships come alive in this first English-language biography.
In recounting Demant Hatt's fascinating life, Barbara Sjoholm investigates the boundaries and influences between ethnographers and sources, the nature of authorship and visual representation, and the state of anthropology, racial biology, and politics in Scandinavia during the first half of the twentieth century.
In recounting Demant Hatt's fascinating life, Barbara Sjoholm investigates the boundaries and influences between ethnographers and sources, the nature of authorship and visual representation, and the state of anthropology, racial biology, and politics in Scandinavia during the first half of the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-2
- Introduction
- pp. 3-8
- Part One. Nomad
- 1. The Lapland Express
- pp. 11-22
- 2. Crossing Lake Torneträsk
- pp. 23-33
- 3. Laimolahti
- pp. 34-44
- 4. Autumn Migration
- pp. 45-56
- 6. Over the Mountains
- pp. 69-79
- 8. Secret Things
- pp. 92-112
- Part Two. Ethnographer
- 9. Portrait of a Womanin Sami Dress
- pp. 115-129
- 10. Storyteller Märta
- pp. 130-142
- 11. Black Fox and Old Wolf
- pp. 143-157
- 12. Somewhere on the Border
- pp. 158-171
- 13. “On the Side of the Lapps”
- pp. 172-183
- 14. Fieldwork
- pp. 184-198
- 15. North American Influences
- pp. 199-210
- 16. The Last Visitto Lake Torneträsk
- pp. 211-225
- 17. Lappish Texts
- pp. 226-246
- Part Three. Artist
- 18. By the Fire
- pp. 249-262
- 19. Turi’s Book of Lappland
- pp. 263-275
- 20. The Art of Recalling
- pp. 276-290
- 21. Long Ago
- pp. 291-303
- 22. The Lapland Paintings
- pp. 304-318
- 23. Ethnographers, Writers, Artists
- pp. 319-326
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 327-330
- Notes on Sources and Language
- pp. 331-334
- Notes to Chapters
- pp. 335-366
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 367-372
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299315535
Related ISBN(s)
9780299315504
MARC Record
OCLC
1004121315
Pages
400
Launched on MUSE
2017-09-20
Language
English
Open Access
No