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The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami : Historical and Political Perspectives on a Minority Within a Minority.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hermanstrand, Håkon.
Other Authors: Kolberg, Asbjø., Nilssen, Trond Risto., Sem, Leiv.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
  • 1.1 Who Are the South Saami?
  • 1.2 The Challenges of Maps-Historically and Politically
  • 1.3 Ethnonyms and Geographical Names
  • 1.4 The Field of Research, Positioning and Context
  • 1.5 Negotiations, Indigeneity and Indigenous Methodology
  • 1.6 Research Questions and Topics
  • Bibliography
  • Sociolinguistic Perspectives
  • 2 Southern Saami Language and Culture-Between Stigma and Pride, Tradition and Modernity
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Southern Saami Language-A Fragile Fabric
  • 2.3 Ethnolinguistic Vitality
  • 2.4 Status
  • 2.5 Demography
  • 2.6 Institutional Support
  • 2.7 Saami Identity Management-Between Tradition and Modernity
  • Bibliography
  • 3 'But They Call Us the Language Police!' Speaker and Ethnic Identifying Profiles in the Process of Revitalizing the South Saami Language, Culture and Ethnic Identity
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Speaker Types
  • 3.3 New Speakerness
  • 3.4 Saami Identity Negotiations
  • 3.5 South Saami Speaker and Ethnic Identifying Profiles
  • 3.5.1 The Older Saamis-Old Speakers
  • 3.5.2 The Language Shifters
  • 3.5.3 The Non-shifters
  • 3.5.4 The Half Saamis
  • 3.5.5 The Double Saami
  • 3.5.6 The Core Saamis
  • 3.5.7 The Reversed Shifter
  • 3.5.8 The Language Police
  • 3.5.9 The Non-speaker
  • 3.6 Interaction in Linguistic and Ethnic Markets
  • 3.7 Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
  • 4 Identification of the South Saami in the Norwegian 1801 Census: Why Is the 1801 Census a Problematic Source?
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.1.1 Background
  • 4.2 The 1801 Census
  • 4.2.1 General Remarks
  • 4.2.2 The 1801 Census
  • 4.2.3 The Church Registers
  • 4.2.4 Vefsn
  • 4.2.5 Alstahaug
  • 4.2.6 Brønnøy
  • 4.2.7 Nærøy
  • 4.2.8 Overhalla
  • 4.2.9 Snåsa.
  • 4.2.10 The 1801 Census Summarized
  • 4.3 Discussion
  • Bibliography
  • 5 The Meaning of Words and the Power of Silence
  • 5.1 Introduction and Background
  • 5.2 The Mindset
  • 5.3 Early Drafts in Saami History
  • 5.4 Neolithic Hunters
  • 5.5 The Need for a Saami Identity
  • 5.6 Early Written Sources, Linguistics Research and Archaeology
  • 5.7 The Medieval Era
  • 5.8 Discussion and Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Text and Representation
  • 6 Puncturing Parts of History's Blindness: South Saami and South Saami Culture in Early Picture Postcards
  • 6.1 Invisibility and Ignorance
  • 6.2 The Bad Reputation of Picture Postcards
  • 6.3 Producing Imagined Saaminess
  • 6.4 Cultural Assimilation as Women's Liberation
  • 6.5 Producing Picturesque Types
  • 6.6 Idiosyncratic Depictions
  • 6.7 Tourism, Live Ethnographic Displays and Postcards of South Saami
  • 6.8 Nils Thomasson the South Saami Photographer
  • 6.9 Postcards to Puncture Blindness and Lessen Loss
  • Bibliography
  • 7 The Indigenous Voice in Majority Media. South Saami Representations in Norwegian Regional Press 1880-1990
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Material and Method
  • 7.3 Previous Research
  • 7.4 Genres and Topics
  • 7.5 Lap, Finn or Saami?
  • 7.6 Majority Voices Speaking About or for the Saami
  • 7.6.1 Reindeer Herding
  • 7.6.2 Saami Politics
  • 7.6.3 Education and Language
  • 7.6.4 History, Culture-and Curiosities
  • 7.7 The Saami Voice
  • 7.8 Negotiating Identity
  • 7.9 The Saami as the Other
  • 7.10 Discussion in the Light of Other Studies
  • 7.11 Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Hegemony and Current Conflicts
  • 8 Out of Print. A Historiography of the South Saami in Regional and National Works of History
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 A Historiographical Context
  • 8.3 The Three-Volume Work Trøndelags Historie
  • 8.4 A Question of Sources?
  • 8.5 Conclusion
  • Bibliography.
  • 9 South Saami Cultural Landscape Under Pressure
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 The Landscape of the South Saami-Tradition, Community and Identity
  • 9.3 Celebration and New Battles
  • 9.4 Conclusion
  • Bibliography.

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