The Sámi people : traditions in transition.

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Author / Creator:Lehtola, Veli-Pekka.
Uniform title:Saamelaiset. English
Edition:Rev. 2nd ed., North American ed.
Imprint:Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2004.
Description:144 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5667773
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ISBN:1889963755
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Ludger Muller-Wille
  • A people divided by borders
  • Diversity of the Sami people
  • Sami languages
  • The language of clothing
  • The language - a map of reality
  • From Tacitus to lappologists
  • The settlement of Fennoscandia
  • The question of Sami origins
  • Expansion of the Sami area
  • Forest Sami and reindeer nomadism
  • A natural people's mental landscape
  • The encroachment of the nation-states
  • Agricultural colonizers and the Sami
  • Sami written culture
  • From special rights to the border closings
  • The Sami and the Laestadian faith
  • Guovdageaidnu's fanatics - religious fervour or folk uprising?
  • From Siida to Nordic community
  • The Norwegianization policy
  • Awakening of Sapmi
  • Pioneers of Sami literature
  • Wartime as a turning point
  • From the fens of Sapmi to the lowlands of Ostrobothnia
  • Changing Sapmi and the Sami movement
  • Schools and boarding houses
  • The Aanaar Sami - a minority within a minority
  • The Skolt Sami in Finland
  • The Kola Sami: a century of history
  • From Sami renaissance to Alta
  • The Alta Conflict
  • The Alta chronicle
  • Sami politics straddling national borders
  • Sami administration today
  • Sami rights
  • Right to one's own language
  • Transforming identities
  • A culture linked with nature
  • Legalized language
  • Communications media
  • Literature and modern times
  • The new vogue in historical writing
  • Music between tradition and the stage
  • From yoik to ethnomusic
  • Duodji - handicraft
  • Sami pictorial arts
  • Mythology and present day in art
  • Theatre and film
  • Nils Aslak Valkeapaa's two lives.