The Control of the Cultural Borders between the Finns and the Skolt Sami : From Ambivalence to Respect for the Border

• Main Author: Nyyssönen, Jukka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Department of History, University of Tromsø, Norway 2009
• Subjects: cultural borders; Finns; Skolt Sami; cultural encounter; control of the border; Sakari Pälsi; Karl Nickul; The Guardians; Journal of Northern Studies; sami
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43258

In this article, the control and drawing up of the cultural borders between the Finns and the Skolt Sami are studied. Before the Second World War, as illustrated in the travel book by Sakari Pälsi, the writer as well as the whole state of Finland tried to come to terms with the new “colony” and the...