Abstract
ABSTRACT In this paper Idiscuss aset of photographs taken by my daughters with disposable cameras, to consider how they perceived an archaeological expedition to northernmost Sápmi (Finnish Lapland). My daughters’ photographic documentation illustrates the views that children from southern Finland have on archaeological fieldwork in an extreme northern environment. Their photographs resemble partly the tourism promotional imagery and Instagram posts, which place emphasis on the impressive landscape, engaging activities, and the gear related to those activities. Based on these imageries, and my personal impressions, thegenius loci of this area for outsiders are largely defined by the mountainous scenery and midsummer snow, both unique to this region within Finland. My daughters’ imagery conveys amixture of familiarity and alienation. There is an awe of facing the new and alien, immersive mountain landscape and the novelty of, e.g., ahelicopter ride to the study site in the middle of aroadless wilderness, and afascination in the familiar expedition activities together with trusted people which creates asense of at-homeness. The familiar actions carried out by familiar people appear to act as important means for placemaking and securing the being-in-the-world, which carries also wider importance beyond this case study.
Highlights
Archaeologists working in remote areas of the world quite often bring their families along on expeditions (Figure 1)
In this paper Idiscuss aset of photographs taken by my daugh ters with disposable cameras, to consider how they perceived an archaeological expedition to northernmost Sápmi (Finnish Lapland)
My daughters’ photographic documentation illus trates the views that children from southern Finland have on archaeological fieldwork in an extreme northern environment. Their photographs resemble partly the tourism promotional imagery and Instagram posts, which place emphasis on the impressive landscape, engaging activities, and the gear related to those activities
Summary
Archaeologists working in remote areas of the world quite often bring their families along on expeditions (Figure 1). The expedition was focused on the Lake Megonjávri area situated in northernmost Sápmi (in Finnish Lapland) deep in the roadless Giehtaruohttasa meahcceguovllu (Käsivarsi Wilderness Area; Figure 2).1 My daughters are familiar with other parts of Sápmi, where they have been taking part in my previous archaeological work, but the mountainous Alpine tundra of this region was a novel and unfamiliar environ ment to them.
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