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Changes in the ecological and economic bases in a coast Lappish district
Southwestern journal of anthropology • 14 • Published In 1958 • Pages: 168-188
By: Paine, Robert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is concerned with three modifications in the ecology and economics of coast Saami society from the seventeenth century to the early 1950s. The first modification is the decreasing scale of coast Saami transhumance as the result of extensive reindeer nomadism among the mountain Saami groups. The second change is the increasing permanency of coast Saami settlements with the discovery and use of large deposits of peat, rather than a dependency on wood as fuel. Finally, the third modification is the change in coast Saami economy from one based primarily on pastoralism to one based on fishing and agriculture, resulting from the withdrawal of the Russian trade that dominated the economy fromt he middle of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Paine shows how, as a result of these three factors, an entirely new type of coast Saami society evolved.
- 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 ; 1963
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952-1953
- 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)
- Lillefjord and Revsbotn, Norway
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert Paine
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sami (European people)