SAMI TRADITIONS: MÁRKOMEANNU`S CONTRIBUTION TO THE REVITALIZATION OF SAMI FOOD TRADITIONS

First and foremost I want to thank my supervisor, Torjer Andreas Olsen, for the best guidance I could have received. Thank you for your patience, motivation and help. This journey has not only made me grow as an academic, but also as a person. I could have never done this without your guidance. Thanks to the Centre for Sami Studies for making this possible for me, especially when living in another city. Thanks to my “husband ” for driving me to the bus to Tromsø at five o’clock in the morning too many times; I owe you even greater thanks for driving med back and forth to Tromsø for so many hours, so many times. Thank you for preparing dinner for me, while I was busy writing exams and this thesis. I need to thank the amazing Márkomeannu mothers and especially Else Grete Broderstad for giving me the brilliant idea of having my fieldwork at Márkomeannu. iii This thesis focuses on the Márkomeannu festival’s contribution to the revitalization of food traditions. The study was conducted on the Márkomeannu festival in Skånland i