ABSTRACT

For many years, I believed that fieldwork is primarily about systematic data collection. Only gradually did I begin to understand that fieldwork has several other, equally meaningful dimensions to it. This essay reflects on archaeological and anthropological fieldwork as inspiration and as a kind of a meditative (or a broadly spiritual) practice that, a little like ‘altered states of consciousness’, affords discovering and becoming aware of interconnections between and entanglements of myriad things and phenomena in the world. This approach implies and resonates with landscapes and lived worlds in the High North, such as the Gilbbesjávri (Fi. Kilpisjärvi) region where we conducted fieldwork in 2020, that are characterized by relational animistic-shamanistic ideas of and engagements with reality. In this essay, I discuss two sites – an old Sámi dwelling site and an unexpected piece of environmental art – in relation to interconnections between, and overlapping of, different worlds. I engage with other worldliness in the landscape and dialogue between the European far North and the Mediterranean, as prompted by the said key loci, and how these enable seeing and experiencing landscapes in a new manner.

摘要

多年来，我认为实地考察主要是关于系统的数据收集。我才逐渐开始理解田野工作还有其他几个同样有意义的维度。这篇文章将考古学和人类学的田野工作视为灵感和一种冥想（或广义的精神）实践，有点像“意识的改变状态”，提供发现和意识到无数事物之间的相互联系和纠缠，以及世界上的现象。这种方法暗示并与高北地区的景观和生活世界产生共鸣，例如我们在 2020 年进行实地调查的 Gilbbesjávri (Fi. Kilpisjärvi) 地区，其特点是关系万物有灵论 - 萨满教的思想和与现实的接触。在这篇论文中，我讨论了两个地点——一个古老的萨米人居住地和一件意想不到的环境艺术——关于不同世界之间的相互联系和重叠。在上述关键地点的推动下，我参与了欧洲远北和地中海之间的景观和对话中的其他世俗性，以及这些如何以新的方式观看和体验景观。