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Naming among the Karesuando Lapps
Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne • 56 (5) • Published In 1952 • Pages: title page, 1-4
By: Pehrson, Robert N., Whitaker, Ian W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is based on field work in 1951-52 by the authors respectively in Könkämä (north Karesuando) as a pre-doctoral fellow of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and in Lainiovuoma (south Karesuando) as a Tennant Student of the University of Cambridge. The article discusses the use of colloquial personal names by the reindeer nomadic Saami of Karesuando parish, Sweden. Various Saami names are present in the text along with explanations as to their derivation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personal names
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Saami
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Scandinavia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1964
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1952
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1951-1952
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Könkämä (north Karesuando parish) and Lainiovuoma (south Karesuando parish), Sweden
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert N. Pehrson and Ian W. Whitaker
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sami (European people)