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Social relations in a nomadic Lappish communityBook 1955 • Whitaker, Ian
Saami • Europe > Scandinavia
This is a study of the social structure of a Swedish Saami reindeer nomads' community, Lainiovuoma. Whitaker, a young Scottish ethnologist, collected his data as a reindeer watcher of the period of a year in Lainiovuoma. Whitaker also used literary m...Naming among the Karesuando Lappsarticle 1952 • Pehrson, Robert N. & Whitaker, Ian W.
Saami • Europe > Scandinavia
This article is based on field work in 1951-52 by the authors respectively in Könkämä (north Karesuando) as a pre-doctoral fellow of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and in Lainiovuoma (south Karesuando) as a Tennant Student of...