Swedish internet resources for the study of the Sámi people

The Sámi, as Europe’s only indigenous people, have a cultural heritage which is being carefully preserved in all four of the Nordic countries. There are some 20,000 Sámi people in Sweden; they inhabit Laponia in Swedish Lapland, which is situated just north of the Arctic circle and was designated a...

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Published in:Art Libraries Journal
Main Author: Roberts, Maud
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2008
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
General Environmental Science
Arctic
Laponia
Sámi
Lapland
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200015285
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0307472200015285
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Summary:The Sámi, as Europe’s only indigenous people, have a cultural heritage which is being carefully preserved in all four of the Nordic countries. There are some 20,000 Sámi people in Sweden; they inhabit Laponia in Swedish Lapland, which is situated just north of the Arctic circle and was designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 1996. This article highlights websites for Swedish Sámi research at a national level.

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