| Summary: | Catechist schools in the south of Lappland, a tool for mission or a tool for education? This essay primarily examines the archival material of the organization Svenska Missionssällskapet. This is done with the intent to analyze how the Sami people are portrayed and described in the synchronic context that consists of the period between 1835-1840. The second purpose of this primary analysis is to deduce what idéas, motives and perceptions are associated with the Sami. The secondary intent with this essay is to draw parallels to the later half of the 19th century, with a focus on ideas,motives, perceptions and the portrayal of the Sami in a similar analysis to the synchronic context but through a diachronic context. Certain themes that are essential to the analysis are ideas related to chritianity, ideas of christian missionary work and ideas related to sobriety and the swedish temperance movement. By analyzing these themes and their associated ideas through both a synchronic and diachronic context there is a possibility to gain new specific and general perspectives on the portrayal of the Sami during the 19th century.
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