Samica is a multilingual interdisciplinary scholarly

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focused on the languages, literatures and cultures of

Sápmi is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people. Sápmi includes the northern parts of Fennoscandia, stretching over four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Most of Sápmi lies north of the Arctic Circle, boun ...

and published by the

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. The first volume was published in 2014. The series editors are the

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Thomas Mohnike (

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) and the

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s Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur (both

History and Profile

The series was founded in 2014 as the follow-up to the series Kleine saamische Schriften. Just as its predecessor, Samica is intended to reach a readership interested in a wide range of topics concerning Sámi studies. Volumes include contributions to the

Sámi languages The Sámi languages ( ), also rendered in English language, English as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi peoples in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and extreme northwest ...

, literatures and cultures as well as teaching materials and literary texts both in the original languages and in translation. As of October 2018, four

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have been published, and a fifth is scheduled to appear in the near future. ''Samica'' is non-profit in the sense that any revenue accrued from the sale of books is used only in the production/publication of new books. In addition to having institutional assist by the University of Freiburg, various organizations in the

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have provided financial support for individual volumes in the series; these include: the Finnish Literature Exchange,

Arjeplog municipality Arjeplog Municipality (, ; ) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Arjeplog. The area, which now is Arjeplog Municipality, used to be a single parish (Swedish: ''socken''), which was made into a munic ...

, Duoddara Ráfe Pite Saami Center, an
Norwegian Literature Abroad
The various volumes have been edited both by the series editors in Freiburg and Strasbourg and by the respective authors and translators. Volume 1 (''Grüße aus Lappland''), the German translation of a text by

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, known as Áilu in the Northern Sami language, Northern Sámi language and with the stage name of Áillohaš (23 March 1943 – 26 November 2001), was a Finnish-born Norwegian Sámi people, Sámi writer, musician and artis ...

, premiered on the main stage for the guest of honor pavilion

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at the

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in 2014. Volume 4 (''Worte verschwinden / fliegen / zum blauen Licht'') is an anthology representing Sámi poetry between tradition and modernity in German translation and the parallel original versions. It is the first anthology of its kind in German. Volume 5 (''Johan Turi'') is the German translation of a scene play about the live of Johan Turi by Harald Gaski and Gunnar H. Gjengset, which is performed as part of the art exhibition HOUSE OF NORWAY in Frankfurt by Beaivváš Sámi Našunálateáhter. Both books premiered on the main stage for the guest of honor pavilion

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at the

in 2019 (vol. 4 on 17 October and vol. 5 on 16 October 2019). Whereas the books mentioned above represent various genres of fictional literature, volume 2 (''Pitesamisk ordbok'') is a contribution to

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for the highly endangered Pite Sámi language and has actually contributed to gain official recognition of this written language.

Volumes

*1 ''Grüße aus Lappland'' /

, translated by Johanna Domokos & Gruppe Bⁱ. - Freiburg : Skandinavisches Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. 2014. *2 ''Pitesamisk'' ''ordbok : Samt stavningsregler'' / Joshua Wilbur (Red.) - Freiburg : Skandinavisches Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. 2014. *3 '' Skoltesamiske tekster fra Neiden'' (forthcoming) *4 ''Worte verschwinden / fliegen / zum blauen Licht : Samische Lyrik von Joik bis Rap'' / Johanna Domokos, Michael Rießler & Christine Schlosser (Hrsg.), translated by Christine Schlosser - Freiburg : Skandinavisches Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. 2019. *5 '' Johan Turi : Ein Bühnenstück mit einem Joik von Áilloš'' / Harald Gaski & Gunnar H. Gjengset, translated by Tatjana Krzemien, Anna-Sophia Mäder & Michael Rießler - Freiburg : Skandinavisches Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. 2019.

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