Acta Borealia (2011): Volume 28(1)

Volume 28(1), 2011

Bengt-Ove Andreassen: History as Religious Self-medication: The case of the Firstborn Laestadians. 1-18
Mikkel Berg-Nordlie: Need and Misery in the Eastern Periphery: Nordic Sámi Media Debate on the Kola Sámi. 19-36
Leif Christian Jensen & Geir Hønneland: Framing the High North: Public Discourses in Norway after 2000. 37-54
Gørill Nielsen & Stephen Wickler:  Boathouses as Indicators of Ethnic Interaction? 55-88
Vladislava K. Vladimirova: “We are Reindeer People, We Come from Reindeer”. Reindeer herding in Representations of the Sami in Russia. 89-113

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Acta Borealia (2010): Volume 27(2)

Volume 27(2), 2010 – Special Issue: History Matter: Dynamics of Arctic Urbanization
Guest Editors: Susanne Dybbroe, Jens Dahl and Ludger Müller-Wille
Editorial. 119
Susanne Dybbroe, Jens Dahl & Ludger Müller-Wille: Dynamics of Arctic Urbanization – Introduction. 120-124
Jens Dahl: Identity, Urbanization and Political Demography in Greenland. 125-140
Ludger Müller-Wille: Precursors of Urban Processes in Finnish Sápmi in the 1960s. 141-150
Edmund (Ned) Searles: Placing Identity: Town, Land and Authenticity in Nunavut, Canada. 151-166
Frank Sejersen: Urbanization, Landscape Appropriation and Climate Change in Greenland. 167-188
Rane Willerslev: ‘Urbanities without a City’: Three Generations of Siberian Yukaghir Women. 189-207
Gitte Tròndheim: Kinship in Greenland – Emotions of Relatedness. 208-221
Bjørn Bjerkli: Landscape and Resistance. The transformation of Common Land from Dwelling Landscape to Political Landscape. 222-237
Obituary – Robert Paine (1926 – 2010). 238

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Acta Borealia (2010): Volume 27(1)

Volume 27(1), 2010
Sari Pietkäinen, Leena Huss, Sirkka Laithiala-Kankainen, Ulla Aikio-Puoskari & Pia Lane: Regulating Multilingualism in the North Calotte: The Case of Kven, Meänkieli and Sámi Languages. 1-23
Anne Heith: An Arctic Melting-Pot: The Byzantine Lagacy and Bengt Pohjanen’s Construction of a Tornedalian Aesthetic. 24-43
Yulian Konstantinov: Socioeconomic Life of Climate Change: Extensitvity in Reindeer Husbandry in Relation to Synergies between Social and Climate Change (Kola Peninsula) 44-65
Per Selle & Kristin Strømsnes: Sámi Citizenship: Marginalisation or Integration? 66-90
Bente Sundsvold: Stedets herligheter – Amentues of Place: Eider Down Harvesting through Changing Times. 91-115

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Acta Borealia (2009): Volume 26(2)

Volume 26(2), 2009
Birgitta Berglund: Fugela Federum in Archaeological Perspective – Eider Down as a Trade Commodity in Prehistoric Northern Europe. 110-135
Teija Alenius, Mika Lavento & Matti Saarnisto: Pollen-Analytical Results from Lake Katajajävri – Aspects of the History of Settlement in the Finnish Inland Regions. 136-155
Karl-Dag Vorren: Farm Development in the Malangen Area, Northern Norway – A Pollen-Analytical Case Study. 156-174
Bjørg Evjen: Research on and by “the Other”. Focusing on the Researcher’s Encounter with the Lule Sami in a Historically Changing Context. 175-193
Inga Maria Mulk: Conflicts Over the Repatriation of Sami Cultural Heritage in Sweden. 194-215

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Acta Borealia (2009): Volume 26(1)

Volume 26(1), 2009
Lars Liedgren & Ingela Bergman: Aspects of the Construction of Prehistoric Stallo-Foundations and Stallo-Buildings. 2-26
Yulian Konstantinov: Roadlessness and the Person: Modes of Travel in the Reindeer Herding Part of the Kola Peninsula. 27-49
Johan Schimanski & Ulrike Spring: Explorers’ Bodies in Arctic Mediascapes: Celebrating the Return of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition in 1874. 50-76
Harald Beyer Broch: Tracks that Matter: On Space, Place and Hare Indian Ethnobiology with special reference to the Marten (martes americana). 77-95
Teemu Ryymin & Astri Andresen: Effecting Equality: Norwegian Health Policy in Finnmark, 1945-1970s. 96-114

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Acta Borealia (2008): Volume 25(2)

Volume 25(2), 2008
Tatjana N. Jackson: Novgorod the Great in Baltic Trade before 1300. 83-92
Trond Trosterud: Language Assimilation During the Modernisation Process: Experiences from Norway and North-West Russia. 93-122
Ketil Zachariassen: Rethinking the Creation of North Norway as a Region. 113-137
Ari Martin Laakso: The Shadow Field of Reindeer Management: A Case Study from Finland. 138-159
Helge Chr. Pedersen: Sports, Politics and Ethnicity in the North. Worker’s Sport in Western Finnmark in the Late 1930′s. 160-186

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Acta Borealia (2008): Volume 25(1)

Volume 25(1), 2008
Lina Gaski: Contesting the Sami Polity: Discursive Representations in the Sami Electoral Campaign in 2005. 1-21
Arild Viken, Brynhild Granås & Toril Nyseth: Kirkenes: An Industrial Site Reinvented as a Border Town. 22-44
Karen Langgård: Oral/Past Culture and Modern Technical Means in the Literature of the Tweentieth Century in Greenland. 45-57
Natalia Drannikova & Roald Larsen: Representations of the Chudes in Norwegian and Russian Folklore. 58-72

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Acta Borealia (2007): Volume 24(2)

Volume 24(2), 2007
Svein Atle Skålevåg: Medical Hermeneutics of Murder. Race, Medicine and Law in a Murder Case from Finnmark, 1911. 109-129
Astri Andresen: In the Wake of the Kautokeino Event: Changing Perceptions of Insanity and the Sámi 1852-1965. 130-142
Teemu Ryymin: Civilising the “Uncivilized”: The Fight against Tuberculosis in Northern Norway at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. 143-162
Ann Grubbström: Estonian Swedish Ethnic Survival – Examples from Nuckö in the Interwar Period. 162-175

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Acta Borealia (2007): Volume 24(1)

Volume 24(1), 2007
Hugh Beach: Self-determining the Self: Aspects of Saami Identity Management in Sweden. 1-25
Ingebjørg Hage: Reconstruction Housing in North Norway: Gender and the Reception of the Modern Era. 26-43
Tatiana Safonova: The Professional Ethos of Rangers in Russian Nature Reserves. 44-58
Narve Fulsås: What did the Weather Forecast do to Fishermen, and what did Fishermen do to the Weather Forecast? 59-83
Reinhard Mook & Reidar Bertelsen: The Possible Advantage of Living in Turf Houses on Settlement Mounds. 84-97

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Acta Borealia (2006): Volume 23(2)

Volume 23(2), 2006
Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja: The Image of the Sàmi in Finnish Visual Arts before the Second World War. 97-115
Daniel Lindmark: Pietism and Colonialism. Swedish Schooling in Eigthteenth-century Sàpmi. 116-129
Roald Berg: Gender in Polar Air: Roald Amundsen and his Aeronautics. 130-144
Teija Alenius & Ville Laakso: Palaeoecology and Archaeology in the Village of Uukuniemi, Eastern Finland. 145-165

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