The Skolt Lapps Today

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Skolt Lapps Today
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tim Ingold
SeriesChanging Culture Series
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:290
Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9780521290906
ClassificationsDewey:947.1/7 947.17
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 30 December 1976
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

On the conclusion of the Second World War, Finland was obliged to cede its northeasternmost territory of Petsamo to the Soviet Union. Amongst those who lost their homes were around four hundred representatives of the original native population of the territory, the Skolt Lapps. The Skolts were subsequently resettled in two 'reservations' marked out in the wilderness of Finland's present northeastern borderlands. The contemporary organization of the Skolt community in the larger of these reservations, the Sevettijarvi area, is the subject of this 1976 study. The first part of the book the ecological imbalance created by technological innovation and commercial penetration; the second analyses the the activities and relationships built up on the fixes template of the resettlement plan; and the third explores the business of 'leap-frog' politics, which links the community into the machinery of modern government and the forum of debate on the future of native minorities.