Papers from the conference held in Tromsø, Norway, October 13–16 2009.
This volume is a collection of articles based on papers that were presented at the conference "Networks, Interaction and Emerging Identities in Fennoscandia and Beyond", 13‒16 October 2009. The articles span a wide range of themes from vast networks of culture to the distribution of individual archaeological types and linguistic features. Many of the papers are based on material that derives from several different fields of study, such as linguistic and archaeology, archaeology and ethnohistory, history and anthropology, etc. While the time-scale, disciplinary character as well as the geographical scope of the articles are very diverse, they are united by three aspects, namely insistence on the fluctuating character of the prehistoric populations as opposed to nominal groups and straightforwardly identifiable ethnic and linguistic entities; the focus on the hunter-fisher-gatherer populations rather than agriculturalists and sedentary communities that have been the subject of most research on networking and interaction; and finally the northern dimension.
Author(s): Charlotte Damm, Janne Saarikivi (eds.)
Series: Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia, 265
Publisher: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: XIV+298
City: Helsinki
Charlotte Damm & Janne Saarikivi / Introduction vii
Part I. ...and beyond
T. Max Friesen / Alaskan Analogues and Eastern Uncertainties: Reconstructing Thule Inuit Interaction Networks in the Eastern North American Arctic 3
Peter Jordan / From Hunter to Herder? Investigating the Spread of Transport Innovations in Northwest Siberia 27
Mark J. Hudson, Mami Aoyama & Kara C. Hoover / Navigating Hunter-Gatherer Resilience: Networks and Insularity in the Prehistory of the Ryukyu Islands 49
Robert Jarvenpa & Hetty Jo Brumbach / The Chipewyan-Cree-Métis Interaction Sphere and the Fur Trade Political Economy: Archaeological, Ethnohistorical and Ethnographic Approaches 67
Pekka Sammallahti / Bottlenecks and Contacts in the Linguistic Prehistory of the Saami 93
E. N. Chernykh / The Northern Hunters, Fishers and Gatherers and their Southern Neighbours in Eurasia in the Early Metal Age 105
Part II. Northern Fennoscandia
Charlotte Damm / Interaction Within and Between Collectives: Networking in Northern Fennoscandia 125
Fredrik Hallgren / A Permeable Border – Long-Distance Contacts Between Hunters and Farmers in the Early Neolithic of Scandinavia 139
Marianne Skandfer / Change and Recollection: House Structures and Social Identification in Finnmark, Arctic Norway 2400 BC – AD 300 155
Janne Saarikivi & Mika Lavento / Linguistics and Archaeology: A Critical View of an Interdisciplinary Approach with Reference to the Prehistory of Northern Scandinavia 177
Lars Ivar Hansen / Networks, Diversity and Mobility among the Northern Sámi in the 16th Century 217
Jukka Korpela / Migratory Lapps and The Population Explosion of Eastern Finns: The Early Modern Colonization of Eastern Finland Reconsidered 241
Dikka Storm / A Network of Missionaries and the Establishment of Knowledge: Creating Space 263
Lars-Gunnar Larsson / Variation in Ume Saami: The Role of Vocabulary in Dialect Descriptions 285
