ABSTRACT Returning old photographs to Sámi communities has been a part of modern repatriation policies, trying to recollect the Sámi heritage from museums, archives and collections outside the modern Sámi area. It is not only important to return items, such as photographs, but also to reconstruct the knowledge around them: to re-identify the old encounters and stories. The article suggests that the earlier interpretations have emphasised the inter-ethnic relations between the Sámi and the majority societies. When returned to local levels of Sámi communities, however, to be interpreted through the lenses of the Sámi subjects, the photographs tell multiple visualized stories about intra-ethnic “our histories”, the recent past of families, kinships and small Sámi communities. The article is based on my experiences and the projects that have been carried out in Finland in the past 15 years, repatriating photographs to Sámi societies.

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我们在其他人的照片中的历史

摘要将旧照片返还萨米人社区已成为现代遣返政策的一部分，旨在从现代萨米人地区以外的博物馆，档案馆和藏品中收集萨米人的遗产。返回照片等物品不仅很重要，而且重建它们周围的知识也很重要：重新识别旧的相遇和故事。该文章认为，较早的解释强调了萨米人与多数社会之间的族裔关系。然而，当返回到萨米族人的地方层面时，这些照片将通过萨米族人的视角来解释，这些照片讲述了多个关于族群内“我们的历史”，家庭，血统和萨米族小社区的近期历史的可视化故事。