Book
The religion of the Samke: ancient beliefs and cults of the Scandinavian and Finnish Lapps
E.J. Brill • Leiden • Published In 1955 • Pages:
By: Karsten, Rafael.
Abstract
This monograph, with an environmental determinist point of view, is a detailed summary of Saami religion written with a view to testing a general theory of religion. Although Karsten collected his data primarily through his field observation, he used extensively the literary sources in Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Russian for comparative purposes. This rather intensive comparative study of the ancient beliefs and cults of the Scandinavian Saami covers topics such as nature worship, the worship of personal gods, shamanism, the system of sacrifice, and the worship of the dead. Karsten's conclusions, dealing with general characteristics of the Saami belief system, constitutes a significant contribution to the development of a theory of primitive religion.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1996
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Scandinavia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Hesung Koh ; 1961
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Norway, Sweden, and Finland
- Notes
- Rafael Karsten
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-133) and index
- LCSH
- Sami (European people)