Liisa-Rávná Finbog
Bio
Liisa-Rávná Finbog is a Sámi archaeologist and museologist from Oslo/Vaapste/Skánit on the Norwegian side of the border. She lives in Oslo and is currently pursuing a PhD in museology where she looks at the relation between Sámi identity and duodji within a museological framework.
She is also an accomplished practicioner of duodji and teaches both courses and workshops in traditional Sámi arts.
Academic interests
museology and museum studies
Collections and exhibitions
identity
cultural heritage
árbediehtu
duodji
archaeology
Background
2013 MA i Museologi, Universitetet i Oslo
"Med nav og eiker. En museologisk analyse av hvordan markesamisk identitet skapes, reforhandles, vedlikeholdes og utvikler seg ved Várdobáiki samisk senter"
2010 MA I Arkeologi, Universitetet i Oslo
"Gullgubber i Nord : Om mannen som ble en gud og kvinnen som ble et landskap - eller fortellingen om kjønn, ideologi og kult på Borg i Lofoten"
Ongoing projects
Phd-project: Negotiating self - the making of Indigenous identity through the use of material culture within a museological framework.
Publications
- Finbog, Liisa-Rávná (2019). The Duojár: An Agent of the Symbolic Repatriation of Sámi Cultural Heritage, In Jennifer Markides & Laura Forsythe (ed.), Research Journeys In/To Multiple Ways of Knowing. Dio Press Inc. ISBN 9781645040101. Chapter 10. s 93 - 102
- Finbog, Liisa-Rávná (2015). Gákti ja goahti : heritage work and identity at Várdobáiki Museum. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. (2), s 95- 107
- Finbog, Liisa-Rávná (2017). #JeSuisSiv og kofta som forsvant. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Finbog, Liisa-Rávná (2017). Muitalus sámiid birra - ei forteljing om samar. Syn og Segn. ISSN 0039-7717. (4)