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Lapp life and customs: a survey

Oxford University PressLondonPublished In 1962 • Pages:

By: Vorren, Ornulv, Manker, Ernst, McFarlane, Kathleen.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is an historical survey of the settlement patterns, subsistence activities, and material and intellectual culture of the mountain, forest, coast, Skolt, and Kola Saami. It includes a brief history of the treatment of the Saami, as a minority group, in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Emphasis is placed on the historical changes in Saami culture that resulted from contact with Russian, Finnish, and Swedish peasant culture and Norwegian fishing and peasant culture.
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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Ethnologist
Folklorist
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
Helen Gunsher Bornstein and John Beierle ; 1971
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)
Sweden, Norway, Finland
NotesAdditional notes
Ornulv Vorren and Ernst Manker ; translated from the Norwegian by Kathleen McFarlane
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173) and index
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
62052168
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Sami (European people)