IN NORTHERN SÁMI
The goal of the dissertation My undergraduate degree thesis entitled The terminology of reindeer husbandry in Northern Sámi- based on the UEW and a collection of joiks (1997) focused on the role of reindeer in the lives of the Sámi people and the reflection thereof in their folklore, based on the ly...
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| Summary: | The goal of the dissertation My undergraduate degree thesis entitled The terminology of reindeer husbandry in Northern Sámi- based on the UEW and a collection of joiks (1997) focused on the role of reindeer in the lives of the Sámi people and the reflection thereof in their folklore, based on the lyrics of joiks, deprived of their tunes, forming the core of Sámi folk poetry. My sources at the time of writing were the Uralisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (ed. in chief Károly Rédei, Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1986), as well as a collection of joiks by György Szomjas-Schiffert published under the title Singing Tradition of Lapp Shamans (Lapp sámánok énekes hagyománya. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1996). It was not my goal at the time to either give a full-scale presentation of the specialized language of reindeer breeding that had developed through centuries or make a comprehensive collection of the elements of the nomenclature concerned. The goals of the current dissertation are to present, by giving a comprehensive picture, the essence of reindeer husbandry as traditionally cultivated by the Sámi, forming a central role in their everyday lives as well as in the economy, in their past and their present (reviewing the history of reindeer husbandry and its reflection in Sámi culture, everyday life and spiritual tradition) and examine the terminology related to reindeer keeping and the nomadic lifestyle involved (presenting a potential semantic grouping of Northern Sámi elements related to the topic and striving for their morphological and etymological analysis). Accordingly, this work comprises two main parts. |
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