New Book Available:
The Sami People - Traditions in Transition
By Veli-Pekka Lehtola
For more information and to order the book see:
http://www.puntsi.fi/sami.htm
The Sami People - Traditions in Transition
By Veli-Pekka Lehtola
Translated by Linna Weber Müller-Wille
With a preface by Ludger Müller-Wille
Kustannus-Puntsi Publishers
Aanaar /Inari, Sapmi, Finland
2002. 139 pp., richly illustrated
ISBN 952-5343-11-1
Price: EUR 20.00 plus postage
For more information and to order the book see:
http://www.puntsi.fi/sami.htm
Sami culture has undergone powerful changes recently. Traditions have
been integrated with contemporary influences and perspectives. New kinds
of Sami participation and activism have evolved including innovative
politics, informative media, expressive art and literature.
Accommodating internal and external changes is nothing novel to the
Sami. The dialogue between what is traditional and what is modern is a
natural part of their development towards the maintenance of Sami
cultural distinctness.
Veli-Pekka Lehtola (Ph.D.), senior research fellow in the Giellagas
Institute at the University of Oulu (Oulu, Finland), has published
several articles concerning Sami culture, history and anthropology. In
1997 he received the prestigious Israel Ruong prize for his scientific
contributions as a distinguished Sami scholar.