Book
Saami ethnoecology: resource management in Norwegian Lapland
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1978 • Pages:
By: Anderson, Myrdene.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is the result of nearly five years of fieldwork among the Saami of the regions comprising western Finnmark and northern Troms counties in Norway. The primary focus, however, is the GUOV'DAGEAI'DNO (or KAUTOKEINO) area located in Finnmark County, Norway. 'The social organization, folk knowledge, and physiographic factors shaping Saami transactions with the natural environment are systematized for various ethnoecologic domains and examined for patterns underlying the structure, persistence, and change in the classification of knowledge involved in resource management' (p. i). The work consists of three volumes. Volume I presents the methodology, data on the primary social units of the Saami, life cycle and annual cycle events, daily routine, and temporal factors bearing on ethnoecology. Volume II deals with the concepts of space, its structure and occupation, spatial factors bearing on ethnoecology, and the organization of environmental resources (with much data on native fauna and flora and their utilization), and the social organization of resource management. Volume III consists of four appendices dealing with language, culture history, modern reindeer management (ca. 1971-1976), and GUOV'DAGEAI'DNO and its environs as it exists today (ca.1971-1976).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Geography
- History and culture change
- Language
- Annual cycle
- Pastoral activities
- Ideas about nature and people
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1971-1976 (p. v)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Guov'dageai'dno (Kautokeino) area, Finnmark County, northern Norway (p. v)
- NotesAdditional notes
- Myrdene Anderson
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Yale University, 1978
- UM 7915912
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 859-941)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Saami (European people)/Human ecology