Browsing Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning by Author "Grøn, Tiia Helena"
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Symbolic and embodied involvements in a landscape. A ski ethnography of Käsivarsi, Finnish Lapland
Grøn, Tiia Helena (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-16)This thesis is about a wilderness-area in Finnish Lapland, people that dwell there and how they perceive the place. The idea of ‘wilderness’ in the socio-cultural context of this research does not exclude human-involvement and one might get surprised by how much social life that includes. The area is used by many tourists and some locals for recreation. At the same time the Saami have their reindeer’s ...