spring 2017 HIS-3013 The Sami Nation. Indigenous people, ethnic minorities and the multi-cultural society - 10 ECTS

Type of course

Theoretical subject. The course is offered to history students at master's level and is appropriate for master students in other social science, law studies and humanities disciplines. Lectures will be identical with those offered to HIS-2002.

The course cannot be taken as a singular course.


Admission requirements

Bachelor's degree with a specialization of at least 80 credits in history or equivalent education (ref. Admission for Master's in history). Grade requirement C in Specialization. The course is also open to students who meet the admission requirements for the master level of other humanities and social sciences.

Course overlap

If you pass the examination in this course, you will get an reduction in credits (as stated below), if you previously have passed the following courses:

HIS-2002 The Sami Nation. Indigenous people, ethnic minorities and the multi-cultural society 10 stp

Course content

The course starts with introducing the theoretical aspects of the discipline of history of ethnic groups in general as well as indigenous peoples specifically. It continues with theoretical and empirical focus of ethnic processes in northern Fennoscandia during the prehistoric times and Middle Ages, including the history of Sami reindeer management. It then goes on to the states' minority policies in 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, including the development of land rights and resource management systems. The course ends by focusing on the development of indigenous and other ethnic groups' revival movements in northern Fennoscandia and Russia.

 


Objectives of the course

The students will achieve these skills and qualifications after the course:

Knowledge: The students shall

  • know about central categories and definitions within the area of ethnicity, and aspects in connection with the relation between majority/minority and nation
  • know and understand the history of the Sami peoples of Fennoscandia and Russia from ancient times until today
  • have specific, ample detailed and up-to date knowledge of the themes treated at the course.

Analytical understanding: The students shall

  • have the ability to work independently with research problems and debated historical problems
  • have the ability to analyze and contribute to historiographical knowledge and debate within the area of the course
  • have the ability to discuss and problematize the categories minority, indigenous people and ethnicity in different historical contexts

Skills and competences: The students shall

  • have a critical view of the human past through discussion at the course
  • have an independent ability to communicate historical research problems, analyses and conclusions about history of the Sami both with specialists and the general public
  • have the ability to structure and formulate complex academic discussions and texts
  • have received training in problem-oriented, scholarly writing and oral presentation
  • be able to specialize further and build up one's competence in the field of research

Language of instruction and examination

English.

Teaching methods

To achieve the central learning targets, the course will have multiple teaching approaches; lectures, discussions, the use of video, and collective and individual tuition.

The course will be evaluated through student evaluation every third year.

Assessment

Students write two essays during the course, each of about 5-7 pages (c.2000-3000 words). Essays are to be delivered within a limit of seven days. These two essays are evaluated together at the end of the course and a grade awarded on an A-F scale. Students are expected to deliver at least one prepared seminar contribution, which must be approved. The contribution is given orally in the lectures and the text is delivered to the teacher. 

The course is open for re-sit examination if failed (grade F).


Recommended reading/syllabus

* in compendium available at Akademika.

Hansen, Lars Ivar and Bjornar Olsen (2014): Hunters in transition: an outline of early Sami history, Brill, Leiden & Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-25254-7. pp. 9-38, 141-312 and 351-354. Students at UiT have free access to full text e-book http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004252554

 

Historiography and theory

* Beck, David and Bjørg Evjen (2015). "An Historical Approach to Growing Indigenous Influence on Research: Extended Perspectives and a New Methodology", In Shanley and Evjen Mapping Indigenous Presence: Perspectives from Sami and Native American Studies. ISBN 978-0-8165-3152-3, Arizona University Press, pp. 27-56. (29).

* Dahl, Jens (2009): IWGIA: a history, ch. "The Concept of Indigenous Peoples", IWGIA, Copenhagen. ISBN9788791563522, pp. 148-156. (8)

* Elenius, Lars and Nikolai B. Vakhtin (2016): "Minorities and minority-related issues" in Mats-Olov Olsson (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Barents Region Vol. I A-M, Pax forlag, Oslo. ISBN 978-82-530-3858-2, pp. 495-507. (13)

Hansen, Lars Ivar and Bjornar Olsen (2014): Hunters in transition: an outline of early Sami history, Brill, Leiden & Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-25254-7. Chap 1 Introduction, p.p 1- 8, and chap. 2 Changing Views on the Origins of the Sámi, pp. 9-38. (38)

* Lehtola, Veli-Pekka (2005): ""The Right to One`s Own Past". Sámi cultural heritage and historical awareness", in: Maria Lähteenmäki, Päivi Pihlaja (eds.), The North Calotte, Perspectives on the Histories and Cultures of Northernmost Europe, Publications of the Department of History, University of Helsinki 18, Helsinki/Inari 2005, pp. 83-94. (12).

* Niemi, Einar (2006): "National Minorities and Minority Policy in Norway", in Sia Spiliopoulou Akermark (ed.): International Obligation and National Debates: Minorities around the Baltic Sea. The Åland Islands Peace Institute, pp. 397-451 (54)

 

Ancient and medieval history

* Olsen, Bjørnar (2003): "Belligerent Chieftains and Oppressed Hunters? Changing Conceptions of Interethnic Relationships in Northern Norway during the Iron Age and the Early Medieval Period", in James H. Barrett (ed.): Contact, Continuity, and Collapse: The Norse Colonization of the North Atlantic, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout. ISBN 9782503512914 pp. 9-31 (22)

Hansen, Lars Ivar and Bjornar Olsen (2014): Hunters in transition: an outline of early Sami history, Brill, Leiden & Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-25254-7. Chap. 4 Colonization, Contacts and Change, 1200-1550, pp. 141-228. (87)

 

Socio-economic history, resource management, land and water rights

* Berg, Bård A. (1996): "Government Intervention into Sami Reindeer-Management in Norway: Has it prevented or provoked "Tragedies of the Commons"?", in: Acta Borealia 1996:2. (19)

* Bjørklund, Ivar (2013): "Domestication, reindeer husbandry and the development of Sámi pastoralism". Acta Borealia vol.30 2013:2, ISSN: 0800-3831, pp. 174-189. (16)

* Broderstad, Else Grete and Hans-Kristian Hernes (2016): "The Finnmark Act" in Mats-Olov Olsson (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Barents Region Vol. I A-M, Pax forlag, Oslo. ISBN 978-82-530-3858-2, pp. 227-228. (2)

Hansen, Lars Ivar and Bjornar Olsen (2014): Hunters in transition: an outline of early Sami history, Brill, Leiden & Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-25254-7. Kap.5 State Integration, Rights, and Missionary Activity ca. 1550-1750, pp. 229-312, Epilogue, pp. 351-354. (125)

* Marainen, Johannes (1982): "The Swedish-Norwegian Convention on the Right of the Migratory Sami to Reindeer Grazing Lands: General background, Conditions and Consequences of the Convention" in Birgitta Jahreskog (ed) The Sami National Minority in Sweden, Uppsala. ISBN 9122005560, pp. 62-76. (14)

 

Minority policy

* Åhrén, Yulian Konstantinov and Natalya I. Novikova (2016): "Sami rights" in Mats-Olov Olsson (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Barents Region Vol. II N-Y, Pax forlag, Oslo. ISBN 978-82-530-3859-9, pp. 291-294. (4)

* Lantto, Patrik and Ulf Mörkenstam (2008): "Sami Rights and Sami Challenges: The modernization process and the Swedish Sami movement, 1886-2006", in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2008. ISSN 0346-8755, pp. 26-51. (25)

* Minde, Henry (2003) "Assimilation of the Sami - Implementation and Consequences", in Acta Borealia, 2003:2, ISSN 0800-3831, pp.121-146. (25)

* Minde, Henry (2003): "The Challenge of Indigenism: The Struggle for Sami Rights in Norway 1960-1990", in Svein Jentoft (et al, eds.): Indigenous Peoples: Resource Management and Global Rights, Eburon Delft, Delft. ISBN 905166978X, pp.75-104. (29)

* Nyyssönen, Jukka (2011): Principles and Practice in Finnish Policies towards the Sámi People, in: Günter Minnerup & Pia Solberg (eds.): First World, First Nations, Internal Colonialism and Indigenous Self-Determination in Northern Europe and Australia, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton. ISBN 1845193512, pp. 80-96. (17)

 

Religion and identity

* Drivenes, Einar-Arne (1992): "Religion, Church and Ethnic Minorities in Norway, 1850-1940". In D.A. Kerr (ed.): Religion, State and Ethnic Groups. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 1855210894, pp. 207-230. (26)

* Eriksson, Johan (2002): "The construction of Sápmi: Towards a transnational polity?" in: Kristina Karppi & Johan Eriksson (eds.): Conflict and Cooperation in the North, Umeå, pp. 239-250. (11)

* Minde, Henry (1998): "Constructing "Laestadianism": A case for Sami survival?" Acta Borealia, vol. 15 (1), 1998, pp. 5-25. (20)

 

Ethnic revitalization

* Elenius, Lars (2016): "Sápmi" in Mats-Olov Olsson (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Barents Region Vol. II N-Y, Pax forlag, Oslo. ISBN 978-82-530-3859-9, pp. 305-309. (8)

* Elenius, Lars, Lassi Heininen, Geir Hønneland and Vladimir Karelin (2015): "Globalisation and transregional co.operation" in Lars Elenius (Ed). The Barents Region. A Transnational History of Subarctic Northern Europe. Pax, Oslo. ISBN: 9788253036519, pp. 417-444. (27)

* Fryer, Paul (2011): "Russia's Sámi: The Search for Autonomy in the Kola Peninsula", in: Günter Minnerup & Pia Solberg (eds.): First World, First Nations, Internal Colonialism and Indigenous Self-Determination in Northern Europe and Australia, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton. ISBN 1845193512, pp. 97-107. (11)

* Jernsletten, Regnor (1998): "The Sami Movement of Norway: Idea and strategy 1900-1940", chapter 12 (summery) in Regnor Jernsletten: Samebevegelsen i Norge Idé og strategi 1900-1940. Center for Sami studies, University of Tromsø, pp. 168-177. (10)

* Ryymin, Teemu (2001): "Creating Kvenness: identity building among the Arctic Finns in northern Norway", Acta Borealia, 2001:1, ISSN 0800-3831. (14)

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  • About the course
  • Campus: Tromsø |
  • ECTS: 10
  • Course code: HIS-3013