A Year in Lapland: Guest of the Reindeer HerdersUniversity of Washington Press, 14. sep. 2015 - 256 sider As a young man American Hugh Beach went to live with the Saami reindeer herders of Swedish Lapland. His lyrically written and very personal story of trying to fit into the herding way of life is a rare insider’s account of the Saami. In a passionate and informed Afterword to this new edition of the book, he revisits his old friends and looks at how Sweden is attempting to balance the conflicting needs of reindeer herders and environmentalists in the 21st century. |
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Side vii
... mountains with the reindeer , although my childhood on the eastern seaboard of the United States certainly contained nothing to anticipate this development . Yet when an experience jumps out of nowhere and grabs hold so strongly that it ...
... mountains with the reindeer , although my childhood on the eastern seaboard of the United States certainly contained nothing to anticipate this development . Yet when an experience jumps out of nowhere and grabs hold so strongly that it ...
Side viii
... mountains I describe . I lend the reader my eyes and ears for a year of adventure with the reindeer herders of Tuorpon Sameby in northern Sweden . The reader will learn much of the herder's life and his seasonal cycle of work with the ...
... mountains I describe . I lend the reader my eyes and ears for a year of adventure with the reindeer herders of Tuorpon Sameby in northern Sweden . The reader will learn much of the herder's life and his seasonal cycle of work with the ...
Side 1
... mountains where the air is always thinner , the birches are dwarfed and have long since stopped growing toward the sun . Instead they snake along the ground no higher than the grass , bowing to the wind . The people of Lapland , the ...
... mountains where the air is always thinner , the birches are dwarfed and have long since stopped growing toward the sun . Instead they snake along the ground no higher than the grass , bowing to the wind . The people of Lapland , the ...
Side 2
... mountains , mix briefly with birch , and are left behind . The lowland birch soon assumes the twisted shape of the mountain birch , which steals up protected hol- lows until it too must pass on the struggle to the dwarf birch . In the ...
... mountains , mix briefly with birch , and are left behind . The lowland birch soon assumes the twisted shape of the mountain birch , which steals up protected hol- lows until it too must pass on the struggle to the dwarf birch . In the ...
Side 3
... mountain chain . These mountains continue into and cover most of northern Norway , but in Sweden the land drops into a broad lowland forest district of pine and fir before meeting the Baltic Sea . The Saami number about 60,000 ( the ...
... mountain chain . These mountains continue into and cover most of northern Norway , but in Sweden the land drops into a broad lowland forest district of pine and fir before meeting the Baltic Sea . The Saami number about 60,000 ( the ...
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3 Calf Marking | 61 |
4 At Home in Staloluokta | 75 |
5 Parka Separations | 99 |
6 Lillselet and the Moose Hunt | 115 |
7 The Sarv Slaughter | 135 |
8 Autumn Migration to the Lowlands | 149 |
9 Winter in Jokkmokk | 171 |
10 Westward with the Spring | 197 |
Epilogue | 217 |
Afterword to the 2001 Edition | 229 |
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antlers birch Birgit boat cabin calf calf-marking calves coffee cold corral deer dogs drive fence fire fish friends gathering goattieh grazing land Gustav härks helicopter Henrik herders hole huge hunt hunters Isak Johan Jokkmokk Saami Karesuando knew Kuhmunens Kvikkjokk Labba Lake Karatj Lapland Lars lasso learned Levik Lillselet looked Märak mark Mavas meat migration miles moose morning mosquitoes mountains move never night Nilas Nils-Anders Nils-Henrik Nils-Tomas once pack Parfa Parka Per-Henrik Per-Jonas Peuraure pulkas pulled rajd reached reindeer antler reindeer herding Sameby sarv slaughter shaman shoe band shoe grass side Sigge ski pole skis slaughter company sleds smoke snow snowmobile soon spring Stalo Staloluokta Stenträsk Sulitjelma summer land Susanna Sven Sweden Swedish Swedish Lapland Tarra Valley tent told tourist trail trees truck Tuorpon vajas Virihaure walk walkie-talkie winter land wolf wolves woods yoik