Coastal identities in the modern age : on diversity of ethnic articulation in Storfjord, North Norway
This thesis discusses Coastal identities in the modern age - the case of Storfjord in Northern Norway as studied in 2009. Populations in the coastal areas of Northern Norway are more or less a mixture of Coastal Sami, Kven and Norwegian. Historically, it might be analyzed as some results of the enco...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/2689 2024-06-02T08:11:49+00:00 Coastal identities in the modern age : on diversity of ethnic articulation in Storfjord, North Norway Kim, Jung Im 2010-05-15 17394287 bytes application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10037/2689 eng eng Universitetet i Tromsø University of Tromsø https://hdl.handle.net/10037/2689 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_2433 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) openAccess Copyright 2010 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 VDP::Social science: 200::Social anthropology: 250 Coastal identities Ethnicity Coastal Sami revitalization SVF-3904 Master thesis Mastergradsoppgave 2010 ftunivtroemsoe 2024-05-07T08:42:34Z This thesis discusses Coastal identities in the modern age - the case of Storfjord in Northern Norway as studied in 2009. Populations in the coastal areas of Northern Norway are more or less a mixture of Coastal Sami, Kven and Norwegian. Historically, it might be analyzed as some results of the encounters of three ethnic groups; the Coastal Sami, Kven and Norwegian historically. Therefore, there is a natural tendency to choose a “both–and” ethnicity. However, the Coastal Sami and Kven experienced the worst form of the Norwegianization policy until the last century. The Coastal Sami and Kven ethnicity were often stereotyped as a stigmatized ethnic identity or just inferior. The mixed ethnic population in Northern Norway was therefore integrated into the Norwegian mainstream. My thesis brings out the contemporary changes among them. I observed the different ethnic identifications among the mixed population in Storfjord. I analyzed them in three categories: Category 1 termed “the North Calotte Cocktail” and “Northerner (Nordlending in Norwegian)” group. Category 2 is the group who chose the single ethnic identity as Sami instead of Northern Norwegian. Category 3 comprises of those who claim double/multiple ethnicity instead of Northern Norwegian. Furthermore, this thesis includes how these different ethnic identifications are influencing Sami ethnic revitalization and their mechanisms for strengthening their new identity. Master Thesis North Norway Northern Norway sami University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Norway |
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This thesis discusses Coastal identities in the modern age - the case of Storfjord in Northern Norway as studied in 2009. Populations in the coastal areas of Northern Norway are more or less a mixture of Coastal Sami, Kven and Norwegian. Historically, it might be analyzed as some results of the encounters of three ethnic groups; the Coastal Sami, Kven and Norwegian historically. Therefore, there is a natural tendency to choose a “both–and” ethnicity. However, the Coastal Sami and Kven experienced the worst form of the Norwegianization policy until the last century. The Coastal Sami and Kven ethnicity were often stereotyped as a stigmatized ethnic identity or just inferior. The mixed ethnic population in Northern Norway was therefore integrated into the Norwegian mainstream. My thesis brings out the contemporary changes among them. I observed the different ethnic identifications among the mixed population in Storfjord. I analyzed them in three categories: Category 1 termed “the North Calotte Cocktail” and “Northerner (Nordlending in Norwegian)” group. Category 2 is the group who chose the single ethnic identity as Sami instead of Northern Norwegian. Category 3 comprises of those who claim double/multiple ethnicity instead of Northern Norwegian. Furthermore, this thesis includes how these different ethnic identifications are influencing Sami ethnic revitalization and their mechanisms for strengthening their new identity. |
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Coastal identities in the modern age : on diversity of ethnic articulation in Storfjord, North Norway |
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Coastal identities in the modern age : on diversity of ethnic articulation in Storfjord, North Norway |
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Coastal identities in the modern age : on diversity of ethnic articulation in Storfjord, North Norway |
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Coastal identities in the modern age : on diversity of ethnic articulation in Storfjord, North Norway |
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Coastal identities in the modern age : on diversity of ethnic articulation in Storfjord, North Norway |
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coastal identities in the modern age : on diversity of ethnic articulation in storfjord, north norway |
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