Presentation at the 10th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced 21.-23. October 2009. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report available at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2992
Presentation at the 8th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 18th-19th of October 2007. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report available at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2995
During the last part of the nineteenth century, Finnmark province and the Northern part of Troms experienced a decline in intergenerational coresidence. This article discusses what impact ethnic affiliation and economic activity had on the living arrangements of the elderly, and what contributed to the change. Logistic regression shows that ethnicity played a role, but its effect disappears after controlling for economic activity. Intergenerational coresidence was positively associated with being a married Sámi male with an occupation in farming or combined fishing and farming. As such a person grew older, he was increasingly likely to live separately from an own adult child. This pattern changed towards the end of nineteenth century. By the close of the century, ethnic differences had disappeared, and headship position, irrespective of marital status, was strongly related to coresidence.
Presentation at the 6th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced in 2005. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report available at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2999
The essay reflects on political pressures exerted by and on scientists and technologists acting as advisors on political and economic matters of the high north.It uses two case studies to do this. One consists in the group of scientists from several nations who engaged as advisors to their foreign offices in the process leading up tothe ratification of the Spitsbergen/Svalbard treaty in 1920. The focus is on the discourse regarding hunting, mining and nature protections on these islands. The second case is the way technologists and geological scientists were engaged in the industrialisation of the USSR. These contexts of course differ in scale and in many other ways but are similar in certain respects. The discussion is centred on the problems of technocracy which is commented based on the Frankfurt school's elaborations on the open society and differing interpretations of technological determinism. This is related further to contemporary contentions over the balance between scientific based environmental stewardship and technological management in northern raw material extraction.
In Norway, historical sources which yield first-hand information about how different
ethnic groups defined themselves are scarce. Second-hand information on the other hand is available in the population censuses undertaken from 1845 onwards. The first
part of this article gives a brief description of the source material, and in order to evaluate the strength of the ethnicity variable given in the population censuses a comparison is carried out with J.A. Friis’s population table attached to his
ethnographic map of 1861 and his estimate of the Sámi population (Friis 1861: 1-5).
In the second part of the article the focus will be on the instructions given to census takers and how they carried out their work in pract ice. There will also be a discussion of the usefulness of a reorganisation of census data into household units and how this strengthens our understanding of ethnic registration. A key finding here concerns the degrees of ethnic homogeneity and heterogeneity in households. The extent of mixed
marriages, both in time and space, will also be an
important issue for discussion.
Mixed marriages can be a key variable in understanding social interaction between
different ethnic groups.
Presentation at the 1st annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 6th-7th of November 2000. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report available in Munin at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/3004
Presentation at the 6th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced in 2005. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report available at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2999