Barbara Sjoholm

The Palace of the Snow Queen

Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi

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Produktbeschreibung

"Diving deep into the rich traditions and vibrant creative communities of northern Scandinavia, Barbara Sjoholm shares her winter adventures in Lapland and Sâapmi in The Palace of the Snow Queen. Writing with keen insight and humor, she offers a timely investigation of how ice and snow shape our imaginations and create a vision that continues to draw visitors to the North"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 136mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781517915148
• ISBN-10: 1517915147
• Artikelnr.: 67981095

Autorenporträt

Barbara Sjoholm is a writer and translator of Danish and Norwegian literature. Her translations include By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends (Minnesota, 2019), and she is author of Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer and From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture (Minnesota, 2022). She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Author’s Note xi
I. Early Winter
1. The Blue Hour 3
2. The Architecture of Snow and Ice 21
3. The Palace of the Snow Queen 41
4. How the Wild Reindeer Was Tamed 59
5. Traveling in the Dark 73
6. On the Finnmark Plateau 97
7. Santa’s Post Office 121
8. Brazilians at the Ice Cinema 135
9. Postcards from Lapland 155
II. Mid Winter
10. Macbeth on Ice 177
11. Iron Mountain 193
12. A Day at the Races 215
13. Winter Market 235
III. Late Winter
14. Untouched Lapland 257
15. “As Long As We Have Waters” 277
16. The Architecture of Melting Ice 295
Afterword   313
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