The Skolt Lapps Today

This 1976 study explores the contemporary organization resettled Skolt Lapp community in the Sevettijärvi area.

Tim Ingold (Author)

9780521290906, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 December 1976

290 pages
21.5 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.35 kg

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 Sevettijärvi 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.

List of illustrations and tables
Foreword
Notes on the text
1. Introduction
Part I. the Procurement of Livelihood: 2. Reindeer (1): traditional pastoralism
3. Reindeer (2): the breakdown of intensive herding
4. Reindeer (3): predatory pastoralism
5. Reindeer (4): associational diplomacy
6. Fishing
7. The exploitation of subsidiary natural resources
8. The sources of money income (1): local fields of unemployment
9. The sources of money income (2): unemployment and welfare
10. The sources of money income (3): migration and emigration
Part II. The Social Relations of Resettlement: 11. The structure of resettlement
12. The household (1): the physical structure
13. The household (2): the development of domestic groups
14. The household (3): the organization of consumption
15. Youth
16. The neighbourhood
17. The central village
Part III. The Minority Culture: 18. Leap-frog politics (1): the headmanship
19. Leap-frog politics (2): legislation
20. Party politics
21. The Lappish movement
22. Culture and community
Notes
Bibliography
Guide to further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Anthropology [JHM]