Stéphane Aubinet
Biographic Data
| ID | 186985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stéphane Aubinet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stéphane |
| FAMILY NAME | Aubinet |
| SIGNATURE | AUBINET S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1445-6135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Barnets musikalske navn: Den samiske «dovdna» i et komparativt perspektiv
Denne artikkelen utforsker den samiske tradisjonen med «dovdna», eller «barnejoik», en unik form for joik som fungerer som et musikalsk navn for barn. Dovdna er generelt kortere, mykere og mer barnslig i lyden enn voksnes joiker, og dens hovedfunksjoner inkluderer å motivere barnet og fungere som en belønning, samt å konsolidere barnets identitet ved å fremme individualitet, autonomi og stolthet. Den bidrar også til å forsterke barnets samiske id…
Lullabies and Universality: An Ethnographic Review
Lullabies are commonly described as a universal musical genre among humans and a likely source of insights into the origins of music. This study explores the validity of these claims through a critical analysis of the ethnographic literature, starting with a literature review based on the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. Lullabies emerged as a “near universal” when defined broadly as any type of singing used to soothe children, but neither as a “n…
Berceuses et chants d’enfant arctiques: Perspective circumpolaire
Chez les peuples autochtones circumpolaires, en Eurasie comme en Amérique et au Groenland, des pratiques remarquablement similaires ont été documentées, consistant à attribuer aux nouveau-nés et aux enfants des chants individuels. Ceux-ci sont utilisés en tant que berceuses, c’est-à-dire afin d’accompagner l’endormissement, mais aussi pour consoler l’enfant, le motiver, le protéger, consolider son identité individuelle, susciter en lui joie, fier…
Why Sámi Sing: Knowing Through Melodies in Northern Norway
The problem of universals in cross-cultural studies: Insights from Sámi animal melodies (yoik)
This article offers a critique of the notion of “universals” in cross-cultural studies on music and emotions based on empirical observations and philosophical arguments. The empirical material comes from experiments with songs evoking animals and belonging to the Indigenous Sámi “yoik” tradition. Participants from the Belgian Ardenne untrained to the yoik ( N = 114, age 4–79) listened to recordings and tried to guess which animal was evoked. Whil…
Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik
This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, associated with a specific being (typically a person, an animal, or a place), and intended to make that being present. By exploring this capacity to invoke and …
Enchantment and non-human voices in the Sámi yoik
The yoik is a vocal technique used by the Sámi people in the northernmost part of Europe. It consists in short circular melodies chanted a cappella and intended to make a person, an animal, or a place present. In the view of many “yoikers,” it is a gift received from the environment that you learn through participation and experimentation. This paper uses the concept “enchantment” as a conceptual bias to comment on two encounters: an anecdote abo…
Chanter les territoires Sámi dans un monde plus-qu'humain
À travers une description du joik, répertoire vocal pratiqué par les Sámi de l'Arctique européen, et des rapports qu'il entretient avec la constitution de territoires, cet article vise à contribuer au développement d'une géographie musicale attentive aux multiplicités de non-humains avec lesquels les interprètes et auditeurs humains cohabitent. Les chants de paysages et d'animaux permettent aux Sámi d'explorer le terrain et de guider leur attenti…
Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik
This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, associated with a specific being (typically a person, an animal, or a place), and intended to make that being present. By exploring this capacity to invoke and …
Chanter les territoires Sámi dans un monde plus-qu'humain
À travers une description du joik, répertoire vocal pratiqué par les Sámi de l'Arctique européen, et des rapports qu'il entretient avec la constitution de territoires, cet article vise à contribuer au développement d'une géographie musicale attentive aux multiplicités de non-humains avec lesquels les interprètes et auditeurs humains cohabitent. Les chants de paysages et d'animaux permettent aux Sámi d'explorer le terrain et de guider leur attenti…
Enchantment and non-human voices in the Sámi yoik
The yoik is a vocal technique used by the Sámi people in the northernmost part of Europe. It consists in short circular melodies chanted a cappella and intended to make a person, an animal, or a place present. In the view of many “yoikers,” it is a gift received from the environment that you learn through participation and experimentation. This paper uses the concept “enchantment” as a conceptual bias to comment on two encounters: an anecdote abo…
The problem of universals in cross-cultural studies: Insights from Sámi animal melodies (yoik)
This article offers a critique of the notion of “universals” in cross-cultural studies on music and emotions based on empirical observations and philosophical arguments. The empirical material comes from experiments with songs evoking animals and belonging to the Indigenous Sámi “yoik” tradition. Participants from the Belgian Ardenne untrained to the yoik ( N = 114, age 4–79) listened to recordings and tried to guess which animal was evoked. Whil…
Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik
This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, associated with a specific being (typically a person, an animal, or a place), and intended to make that being present. By exploring this capacity to invoke and …
Berceuses et chants d’enfant arctiques: Perspective circumpolaire
Chez les peuples autochtones circumpolaires, en Eurasie comme en Amérique et au Groenland, des pratiques remarquablement similaires ont été documentées, consistant à attribuer aux nouveau-nés et aux enfants des chants individuels. Ceux-ci sont utilisés en tant que berceuses, c’est-à-dire afin d’accompagner l’endormissement, mais aussi pour consoler l’enfant, le motiver, le protéger, consolider son identité individuelle, susciter en lui joie, fier…
Why Sámi Sing: Knowing Through Melodies in Northern Norway
Lullabies and Universality: An Ethnographic Review
Lullabies are commonly described as a universal musical genre among humans and a likely source of insights into the origins of music. This study explores the validity of these claims through a critical analysis of the ethnographic literature, starting with a literature review based on the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. Lullabies emerged as a “near universal” when defined broadly as any type of singing used to soothe children, but neither as a “n…
Barnets musikalske navn: Den samiske «dovdna» i et komparativt perspektiv
Denne artikkelen utforsker den samiske tradisjonen med «dovdna», eller «barnejoik», en unik form for joik som fungerer som et musikalsk navn for barn. Dovdna er generelt kortere, mykere og mer barnslig i lyden enn voksnes joiker, og dens hovedfunksjoner inkluderer å motivere barnet og fungere som en belønning, samt å konsolidere barnets identitet ved å fremme individualitet, autonomi og stolthet. Den bidrar også til å forsterke barnets samiske id…
Art (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Melody (3 works) · Musical (3 works)