Changing Lapps A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway

Changing Lapps A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway is a study of culture contact between the Saami and the Scandinavians, chiefly Norwegians, in an historical perspective. This study is based primarily on literary sources and official records supplemented by field work. In order to correct the stereotype of the Saami as being a homogeneous people and entirely nomadic reindeer breeders, Gjessing describes Saami social structure and the functional aspects of the contact in terms of three Saami sub-cultures, those of the sea Saami, Reindeer Saami, and the permanently settled inland Saami. Gjessing points out that there is an increasing feeling of solidarity following economic lines rather than the local and cultural lines among the Saami

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Changing Lapps

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Changing Lapps A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway is a study of culture contact between the Saami and the Scandinavians, chiefly Norwegians, in an historical perspective. This study is based primarily on literary sources and official records supplemented by field work. In order to correct the stereotype of the Saami as being a homogeneous people and entirely nomadic reindeer breeders, Gjessing describes Saami social structure and the functional aspects of the contact in terms of three Saami sub-cultures, those of the sea Saami, Reindeer Saami, and the permanently settled inland Saami. Gjessing points out that there is an increasing feeling of solidarity following economic lines rather than the local and cultural lines among the Saami

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• Authors: Gjessing Gutorm, Gutorm Gjessing, G. Gjessing
• Assisted by: Laura Bear (Editor)
• Publisher: Black A&C Publishers
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.01.2008
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics
• EAN: 9781845200107
• ISBN: 978-1-84520-010-7
• Pages: 78
• Series: London School of Economics Mon; London School of Economics Mon; LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology; Lse Monographs on Social Anthr > 68
• Subjects: Anthropology, Finland, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Indigenous Studies, Physical anthropology, Cultural assimilation, Saami social structure research, minority group dynamics, Scandinavian anthropology, historical fieldwork analysis, Saami ethnography