PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
ED  - Spangen, Marte
ED  - Salmi, Anna-Kaisa
ED  - Äikäs, Tiina
AU  - Spangen, Marte
AU  - Salmi, Anna-Kaisa
AU  - Äikäs, Tiina
TI  - Sámi Archaeology and Postcolonial Theory—An Introduction
AID  - 10.3368/aa.52.2.1
DP  - 2015 Jul 27
TA  - Arctic Anthropology
PG  - 1--5
VI  - 52
IP  - 2
4099  - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/52/2/1.short
4100  - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/52/2/1.full
SO  - Arctic Anthropol2015 Jul 27; 52
AB  - While researchers within Sámi archaeology have dealt with issues closely related to postcolonial theory and critique since the 1970s onwards, this has rarely been done with explicit mention or coherent use of this theoretical complex. This somewhat paradoxical situation was addressed in a session at the 14th conference of the Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group at Stockholm University in April 2014, an initiative that eventually resulted in the present collection of articles. In this introduction we briefly present the historiographical and discursive background for the debates that are outlined in the following contributions.