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Changes in the ecological and economic bases in a coast Lappish district
Southwestern journal of anthropology • 14 • Published In 1958 • Pages: 169-188
By: Paine, Robert.
Abstract
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 extensive reindeer nomadism among the mountain Saami groups. The second change is the increasing permanency of coast Saami settlements with the discovery and use of large deposits of peat, rather than a dependency on wood as fuel. Finally, the third modification is the change in coast Saami economy from one based primarily on pastoralism to one based on fishing and agriculture, resulting from the withdrawal of the Russian trade that dominated the economy fromt he middle of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Paine shows how, as a result of these three factors, an entirely new type of coast Saami society evolved.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1996
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Scandinavia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1963
- Field Date
- 1952-1953
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Lillefjord and Revsbotn, Norway
- Notes
- Robert Paine
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188)
- LCSH
- Sami (European people)