Farmer-fishermen : interior lake fishing and inter-cultural and intra-cultural relations among coastal and interior Sámi communities in northern Sweden AD 1200–1600
Although the productive fishing grounds had long attracted the Crown and the Church to northern Sweden, it was not until the sixteenth century that the judicial and fiscal powers of the Swedish Crown were exercised in full. Records show that the regular fishing in interior lakes formed a prominent e...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-142436 2023-10-09T21:43:58+02:00 Farmer-fishermen : interior lake fishing and inter-cultural and intra-cultural relations among coastal and interior Sámi communities in northern Sweden AD 1200–1600 Bergman, Ingela Ramqvist, Per H. 2017 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-142436 https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2017.1390662 eng eng Silvermuseet, Institute for Subarctic Landscape Research (INSARC), Arjeplog, Sweden Tromsö Acta Borealia, 0800-3831, 2017, 34:2, s. 134-158 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-142436 doi:10.1080/08003831.2017.1390662 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Interior lake fishing medieval coastal farmers Sámi land-use Northern Sweden Archaeology Arkeologi History Historia Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2017 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2017.1390662 2023-09-22T13:51:51Z Although the productive fishing grounds had long attracted the Crown and the Church to northern Sweden, it was not until the sixteenth century that the judicial and fiscal powers of the Swedish Crown were exercised in full. Records show that the regular fishing in interior lakes formed a prominent enterprise among coastal farmer communities. This paper examines the social and economic context of farmers engaged in interior fishing with respect to the internal organization of village communities, principles of private and collective ownership, land-use strategies and inter-community relations. There are no a-priori assumptions about the coastal population being “Swedish”. Instead of applying ethnonyms, the terms “farmer” and “coastal” are used throughout the paper. The main area of investigation includes the coastal area of northernmost Sweden and the western parts of Finnish Lapland. The study shows that interior lakes fitted into village resource areas, long sanctioned by usage, and that usufruct belonged to village members collectively. A large part of the fishing lakes are situated in interior Sámi territory. Fishermen were internalizing Sámi place names, implying close relations between the groups. Archeological investigations point to subsistence strategies including systemic interior lake fishing being established before AD 1200. The authors propose that coastal and interior communities should be perceived as two economic strategies representing indigenous and pre-colonial land-use schemes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Acta Borealia Northern Sweden Lapland Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Acta Borealia 34 2 134 158 |
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Interior lake fishing medieval coastal farmers Sámi land-use Northern Sweden Archaeology Arkeologi History Historia Bergman, Ingela Ramqvist, Per H. Farmer-fishermen : interior lake fishing and inter-cultural and intra-cultural relations among coastal and interior Sámi communities in northern Sweden AD 1200–1600 |
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Although the productive fishing grounds had long attracted the Crown and the Church to northern Sweden, it was not until the sixteenth century that the judicial and fiscal powers of the Swedish Crown were exercised in full. Records show that the regular fishing in interior lakes formed a prominent enterprise among coastal farmer communities. This paper examines the social and economic context of farmers engaged in interior fishing with respect to the internal organization of village communities, principles of private and collective ownership, land-use strategies and inter-community relations. There are no a-priori assumptions about the coastal population being “Swedish”. Instead of applying ethnonyms, the terms “farmer” and “coastal” are used throughout the paper. The main area of investigation includes the coastal area of northernmost Sweden and the western parts of Finnish Lapland. The study shows that interior lakes fitted into village resource areas, long sanctioned by usage, and that usufruct belonged to village members collectively. A large part of the fishing lakes are situated in interior Sámi territory. Fishermen were internalizing Sámi place names, implying close relations between the groups. Archeological investigations point to subsistence strategies including systemic interior lake fishing being established before AD 1200. The authors propose that coastal and interior communities should be perceived as two economic strategies representing indigenous and pre-colonial land-use schemes. |
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Farmer-fishermen : interior lake fishing and inter-cultural and intra-cultural relations among coastal and interior Sámi communities in northern Sweden AD 1200–1600 |
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Farmer-fishermen : interior lake fishing and inter-cultural and intra-cultural relations among coastal and interior Sámi communities in northern Sweden AD 1200–1600 |
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Farmer-fishermen : interior lake fishing and inter-cultural and intra-cultural relations among coastal and interior Sámi communities in northern Sweden AD 1200–1600 |
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Farmer-fishermen : interior lake fishing and inter-cultural and intra-cultural relations among coastal and interior Sámi communities in northern Sweden AD 1200–1600 |
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Farmer-fishermen : interior lake fishing and inter-cultural and intra-cultural relations among coastal and interior Sámi communities in northern Sweden AD 1200–1600 |
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farmer-fishermen : interior lake fishing and inter-cultural and intra-cultural relations among coastal and interior sámi communities in northern sweden ad 1200–1600 |
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Silvermuseet, Institute for Subarctic Landscape Research (INSARC), Arjeplog, Sweden |
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