Book
The religion of the Samek: ancient beliefs and cults of the Scandinavian and Finnish Lapps
E.J. Brill • Leiden • Published In 1955 • Pages:
By: Karsten, Rafael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph, with an environmental determinist point of view, is a detailed summary of Saami religion written with a view to testing a general theory of religion. Although Karsten collected his data primarily through his field observation, he used extensively the literary sources in Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Russian for comparative purposes. This rather intensive comparative study of the ancient beliefs and cults of the Scandinavian Saami covers topics such as nature worship, the worship of personal gods, shamanism, the system of sacrifice, and the worship of the dead. Karsten's conclusions, dealing with general characteristics of the Saami belief system, constitutes a significant contribution to the development of a theory of primitive religion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Religious beliefs
- Religious practices
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Hesung Koh ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Norway, Sweden, and Finland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rafael Karsten
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-133) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sami (European people)