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Stein R. Mathisen
Stein R. Mathisen, mag.art. folkloristics, Associate Professor of Culture Studies at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Finnmark Faculty Alta, where he teaches heritage tourism a...ver maisStein R. Mathisen, mag.art. folkloristics, Associate Professor of Culture Studies at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Finnmark Faculty Alta, where he teaches heritage tourism at the Master in Tourist Studies. Major research interests include folk medicine and folk belief, the role of narratives in the constitution of identity and ethnicity, questions of heritage politics and ethno-politics, and the history of cultural research in the northern areas. He has done fieldwork in various Kven, Sámi and Norwegian locations in Northern Norway concerning identity, ethnicity, folk medicine and folk belief, and in the Finn Forest area (Norway and Sweden) concerning festivals and revitalization of ethnic culture.
Recently published articles in English: “Narrated Sámi Sieidis. Heritage and Ownership in Ambiguous Border Zones.” Ethnologia Europaea 39:2 (2009), 11-25; “Indigenous Spirituality in the Touristic Borderzone: Virtual Performances of Sámi Shamanism in Sápmi Park.” Temenos Vol. 46, No. 1, 53-72. Turku 2010.ver menos