NYHETER 2020-09-08

The past is present: Death systems among the Indigenous Sámi in Northern Scandinavia today

NEW ARTICLE PUBLISHED. Despite growing interest in Indigenous health, the lack of end-of-life (EOL) research about the Sámi people led us to explore experience-based knowledge about EoL issues among the Sámi. The article aims to describe Sámi death systems and the extent to which Kastenbaum’s conceptualisation of death systems is appropriate to Sámi culture.