"Naturfolk" i teori og praksis: skildringen av samene og den nordlige naturen i Knud Rasmussens Lapland

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Fredrik Christian Brøgger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2014
• Subjects: Knud Rasmussen; Lapland; Sami; Arctic; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Greenland; Rasmussen; sami
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3073; https://doaj.org/article/315ac2444b2249759ac5ed75098b7d77

This article focuses on the portrayal of reindeer Sami in the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen's early book Lapland from 1907, a work that has received relatively little attention in Rasmussen scholarship. His characterizations of the Sami reflect conventional, paternalistic ideas of race and cul...