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- Title
SKOLT SAMI RECIPROCITY AND THE ACTIONS OF THE STATE ADMINISTRATION.
- Authors
ITKONEN, PANU
- Abstract
This report explores reciprocal work relations in the Sevettijärvi Skolt Sami reindeer herding community in Northern Finland and the community's relationship to the state administration. At the time of research, groups of several households whose working relationships were based on balanced reciprocity and equality were shrinking in reindeer separations, as working units of one main household were becoming more common. Even though reciprocity is still largely based on kinship, the meaning of non-kin reciprocity has slightly expanded. In the culture of the community, both traditional and modern features support production, including the important part played by additional sources of livelihood. The state's subsidy policy has supported the centralization of reindeer ownership and the state's predator policy has reinforced growth in the number of predators. Most of the Sevettijärvi reindeer herders were critical about these policy aspects.
- Subjects
FINLAND; SKOLT Sami dialect; REINDEER; HERDING; REINDEER herding; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 2014, Vol 39, Issue 2, p73
- ISSN
0355-3930
- Publication type
Article