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By Lars Ivar Hansen

Hunters in Transition offers a brand new define of the early background of the Sami and discusses concerns resembling the formation of Sami ethnicity, interplay with chieftain and nation societies, and the transition from looking to reindeer herding.

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This people lived in turf huts or tents, dressed in skins, and depended on the animals they killed. changing views on the origins of the sámi 37 Based on comparisons with the Sámi culture as known from later periods, Tacitus’ and Ptolemy’s descriptions have traditionally been interpreted as referring to the Sámi. However, recent research makes it more likely that they were referring to the heterogeneous hunter-gatherer inhabitants of southern Finland who were the predecessors of both the Sámi and the Finlanders.

For various reasons, ten years would pass before Barth’s dynamic view of ethnicity had an impact on research into the emergence of Sámi ethnicity. In 1983, however, social anthropologist and archaeologist Knut Odner published a book in which Barth’s theory forms the basis for understanding the emergence and maintenance of Sámi ethnicity. ” Using Barth’s theory of ethnicity, Odner asserts that Sámi ethnicity arose as a result of contact between the hunter population of northern Fennoscandia and the surrounding farming societies.

Risvik pottery stands out as being very different, as it is bowl-shaped, thick-walled, and normally unornamented (see fig. 5). 6 Forsberg 1985; Hood and Olsen 1988; Olsen 1994; Bergman 1995. 7 Munch 1962; Jørgensen and Olsen 1988; Andreassen 2002. economic specialization and ethnic consolidation 41 Fig.  Asbestos pottery of Kjelmøy type from Ångermanland and southern Lappland.

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