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Coast Lapp society, IBook 1957 • Paine, Robert
Saami • Europe > Scandinavia
This monograph is a description of coast Saami life. The first part of the book describes the adjustment of Saami culture to its environment. A section is devoted to the history of the Saami, and Paine shows how settlement pattern has been influenced...Changes in the ecological and economic bases in a coast Lappish districtarticle 1958 • Paine, Robert
Saami • Europe > Scandinavia
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 extens...Coast Lapp society, IIBook 1965 • Paine, Robert
Saami • Europe > Scandinavia
Paine, periodically involved with Saami around Revsbotn Fjord during the 1950s, presents information on social changes in the Saami community due to the penetration of national economic forces and organizations. His primary concerns are the conflict ...Herds of the tundraBook 1994 • Paine, Robert
Saami • Europe > Scandinavia
In this book Paine portrays the life of the Saami reindeer pastoralists in northern Norway (particularly the Kautokeino area of Finnmark County) during the 1960s and again in the decade between 1979-1989, and analyzes the effects of recent Norwegian ...