Book

The Skolt Lapps today

Cambridge University PressLondonPublished In 1976 • Pages: xi, 276

By: Ingold, Tim.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is divided into three major parts. Part I deals primarily with the Skolt economy, chiefly with reindeer management, but with a substantial amount of information on fishing and the exploitation of other subsidiary natural resources. This section also outlines the principal sources of money income for the Skolts as obtained from local employment, welfare, and migration (in the search for work outside the Saami area). Part II deals with the patterning of social relationships within the community. Following the general outline of the overall spatial layout of the community and its social correlates, Ingold analyzes the organization of the household from three perspectives -- its physical aspects in relation to the use of housing space, its developmental aspects in terms of domestic group composition, and its economic aspects as a unit of consumption. This part of the work also contains data on the special position of youth in the society, social relations within a typical neighborhood, and the position of the local elite in Sevettijärvi. Part III examines the relationship of the community as a resettled minority through its assembly and headman, with the bureaucracy and legislature of the state, with the machinery of party politics and with the pan-Saami minority movement (pp. 12-13).
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Sociocultural trends
Pastoral activities
Social relationships and groups
Household
Political movements
Adolescent activities
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
May 1971-Sept. 1972 (p. ix)
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1971-1972
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Skolt Saami; Sevettijärvi, Finland
NotesAdditional notes
Tim Ingold
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-263) and index
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
76008289
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Sami (European people)