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HIS-3013: Den samiske nasjonen: De samiske folk og deres relasjoner til andre etniske minoriteter og deres hjemland Omfang
10 studiepoeng | Emnetype
Teoretisk. | Emnenivå/studieår
Første eller andre året på masternivå. | Undervisningsspråk
Engelsk. | Eksamenssemester
Vår
| Mål
The course will give an introduction to the history of the Sami peoples. The course is offered to history students at master¿s level and is appropriate for students in other social science and humanities disciplines. Lectures will be identical with those offered to HIS-2002. Requirements of previous knowledge The course is specially directed to students with a background in social sciences, law studies and the humanities. Master¿s students in history should have already completed these courses: HIS-1001, 1002, 1003, 2001 | Innhold
The course will start with theoretical aspects of the discipline of history of ethnic groups generally and indigenous peoples specially. It continues with theoretical and empirical focus of ethnic processes in northern Fennoscandia during the prehistoric times and Middle Ages, including the history of Sami reindeer management. It then goes on to the states¿ minority policies in 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, including the development of land rights and resource management systems. The course ends by focusing on the development of indigenous and other ethnic groups¿ revival movements in northern Fennoscandia and Russia. | Undervisning
The course has multiple teaching approaches; lectures, discussions, video shows and collective and individual guidance. | Eksamen og vurdering
Students write two essays during the course, each of about 5-7 pages (c.2000-3000 words). Essays are to be delivered within a limit of seven days. These two essays are evaluated together at the end of the course and a grade awarded on an A-F scale. Students are in addition expected to deliver at least one prepared seminar contribution, which must be approved. | Kontaktperson
Steinar Aas/Åse Johansen | Pensum
Reading list
Titles marked with are available in compendia
Historiography and theory (144)
- Sven Tägil: "Introduction", in Sven Tägil (ed.): Ethnicity and Nation Building in the Nordic World, London: Hurst & Company 1995, pp. 1-32 (32)
- Einar Niemi: "National Minorities and Minority Policy in Norway", in: International Obligation and National Debates: Minorities around the Baltic Sea. Editor-in-Chief Sia Spiliopoulou Akermark, The Åland Islands Peace Institute, 2006, pp. 397-451 (54).
- Henry Minde: The Post-War Sami Society in Norwegian Historiography: Paper presented to the First international Conference of Arctic Social Sciences, Universié Laval, October 1992 (30)
- S. Jones: "Ethnicity, the conceptual and theoretical terrain", chap. 4 (p. 56 - 83) in: The Archaeology of Ethnicity. Constructing identities in the past and present, London & New York 1997. (28)
Ancient and medieval history (137)
- Bjørnar Olsen: "Belligerent Chieftains and Oppressed Hunters? Changing Conceptions of Interethnic Relationships in Northern Norway during the Iron Age and the Early Medieval Period", in James H. Barrett (ed.): Contact, Continuity, and Collapse: The Norse Colonization of the North Atlantic, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2003, pp. 9-31 (22)
- Lars Ivar Hansen: "Interaction between Northern European sub-artic Societies during the Middle Ages", in Magnus Rindal (ed.): Two studies on the Middle Ages, KULTs skriftserie No. 66, The Research Council of Norway, Oslo 1996, 31-95. (65)
- Thomas Wallerström: "The Saami between East and West in the Middle Ages: an archaeological contribution to the history of reindeer breeding", Acta Borealia, vol. 17, no. 1/2000, pp. 3-39. (37)
Socio-economic history and resource management (100)
- Robert Paine: "Chances in the Ecological and Economic Bases in a Coast Lappish District", in: South Western Journal of Anthropology, vol. 14, 1958, pp. 168-189 (21)
- Hugh Beach, Reindeer-Herd Management in Transition: The Case of Tuorpon Saameby in Northern Sweden, Stockholm 1981, chapter 5: "Reindeer-Management Terms" and chapter 6 "Basic-Determinant Relations" (21)
- Johannes Marainen: "The Swedish-Norwegian Convention on the Right of the Migratory Sami to Reindeer Grazing Lands: General background, Conditions and Consequences of the Convention" in Birgitta Jahreskog (ed) The Sami National Minority in Sweden, Uppsala 1982. Pp. 62-76 (14)
- Bård A. Berg: "Government Intervention into Smi Reindeer-Management in Norway: Has it prevented or provoked "Tragedies of the Commons"?", in: Acta Borealia 1996:2, (19)
- Bård A. Berg: "Effects of different reindeer-management laws on the development of Sami reindeer-herding in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia", paper presented in Saariselka August 2003, Rangifer 2004 (in print) (15)
Land and water rights (70)
- Magnus Mörner: "The Colonization of Norrland by Settlers during the Nineteenth Century in Broader Perspective", Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 7 (4), 1982, pp. 315-337 (22)
- Steinar Pedersen: "State or Saami Ownership of Land in Finnmark?" in Roger Kvist (ed.): Readings in Saami History, Culture and Language II, Umeå University 1991, pp.69-84 (15)
- Steinar Pedersen, "Norwegian nationalism and Saami areas as no-man´s land", in Kristina Karppi & Johan Eriksson (eds.): Conflict and Cooperation in the North, Umeå 2002, pp. 167-182 (15)
- Tom G. Svensson: The Smi and Their Land. Oslo: Novus forlag 1997. Chapter XI: "Concluding remarks", pp. 187-197 (10)
- (Einar Niemi, op.cit.).
Source materials:
- The Finnmark Act (excerpts from web-pages: The Norwegian Sami Parliament) (12)
Minority policy (126)
- Knut Einar Eriksen & Einar Niemi: Den finske fare. Oslo 1981, Chapter: "The Finnish menace. Boundary problems and minority policy in the North (1970-1940), pp. 352-374 (22)
- Roger Kvist: "Swedish saami policy, 1550-1900", in Roger Kvist (ed): Readings in Saami History, Culture and Language III, Umeå university 1992, pp. 63-77, (14)
- Patrik Lantto and Ulf Mörkenstam: "Sami Rights and Sami Challenges: The modernization process and the Swedish Sami movement, 1986-2006", in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2008, pp. 26-51 (25)
- Lars Elenius: "A Place in the Memory of Nation. Minority Policy towards the Finnish Speakers in Sweden and Norway", in: Acta Borealia, vol. 19 (2), 2002, pp. 103-123 (20)
Henry Minde, "The Challenge of Indigenism: The Struggle for Sami Rights in Norway 1960-1990", in Svein Jentoft (et al, eds.): Indigenous Peoples: Resource Management and Global Rights, Delft: Eburon Delft, 2003, pp.75-104 (29)
Religion and identity (59)
- Nellejet Zordrager: De rettferdiges strid: Kautodeino 1852. Vett & viten as Gronningen 1997, pp. 454-461, chapter "Summery", (8)
- Henry Minde: "Constructing ´Laestadianism´: A case for Sami survival?" Acta Borealia, vol. 15 (1), 1998, pp. 5-25 (20)
- Johan Eriksson: "The construction of Spmi: Towards a transnational polity?" in: Kristina Karppi & Johan Eriksson (eds.): Conflict and Cooperation in the North, Umeå 2002, pp. 239-250 (11)
- Vigdis Stordahl: "Ethnic Integration and Identity Management: Discourses of Sami Self-Awareness", in Ludger Müller-Wille & Linna Weber Muller-Wille (eds.): Changes in Contemporary Northern Societies. Diedut nr. 7 /Northern Studies Forum (10)
- Bård A. Berg: "The Idea of a Sami Nation", (Norwegian version in print in Speculum Boreale, Tromsø 2004 (10)
Ethnic revitalization (53)
- Regnor Jernsletten: "The Sami Movement of Norway: Idea and strategy 1900-1940", chapter 12 (summery) in Regnor Jernsletten: Samebevegelsen I Norge Idé og strategi 1900-1940. Center for Sami studies, University of Tromsø 1998, pp. 168-177 (10)
- Regnor Jernsletten: "The development of a Saami élite in Norden", in: Kristina Karppi & Johan Eriksson (eds.): Conflict and Cooperation in the North, Umeå 2002, pp. 147-166 (19)
- Tamara Semenova: "Political mobilisation of northern indigenous peoples in Russia", Polar Record, 2007, pp. 23-32.
- Teemu Ryymin: "Creating Kvenness: identity building among the Arctic Finns in northern Norway", Acta Borealia, 2001 (1), (14)
Total: 689 pages
| Emnet overlapper disse emnene
HIS-2002 -1 10 sp | Hjemmeside
http://uit.no/historie/1982/33
| Timeplaner
http://timeplan.uit.no/emne.php?year=2008&department=ALLE&module=HIS-3013-1 |
Undervisning våren 2008
First meeting: 22. January, 12.15, at room M-025, Breiviklia (History) | | Eksamen | 1. essay handed out: 10 th March at 0930. Date of delivery: 17th March at 1400. Second essay handed out at 0930the 2. May. Date of delivery 9. May at 1400.
Both essays handed out and delivered at the reception in Breiviklia, room N-229.
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Utfyllende informasjon
Scedule for the spring term 2008
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