Time, Seasonality, and Trade: Swedish/Finnish-Sámi Interactions in Early Modern Lapland

Symonds, James; Ylimaunu, Timo; Salmi, Anna‐Kaisa; Nurmi, Risto; Kallio-Seppä, Titta; Kuokkanen, Maija H.; Kuorilehto, Markku; Tranberg, Annemari

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“…Most importantly, historical accounts show that fairs were seasonal special events, which gathered people with different cultures from near and far around Fennoscandia and the Baltic Sea world. Beside their commercial and economic purpose, the northern fairs had administrative, social and religious functions (Ylimaunu 2007: 26-28;Symonds et al 2015) and were generally comparable to early medieval central European fairs discussed by Theuws (2004), who characterizes them as 'a total social phenomenon'. Olaus Magnus (1973[1555: XX.1) provides a brief, personal account of the important fairs and marketplace of Tornio (Figure 7.3) -which he describes as a town -in the sixteenth century, highlighting its busy and multicultural atmosphere, whereas the nineteenth-century priests and scholars Jakob Fellman (1980) and Mathias Castrén (1954[1802) offer vivid and reprehending narratives of misbehaviour and drunkenness at the fairs in Kemi in the nineteenth century.…”

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Northern Archaeology and Cosmology

Herva¹,

Lahelma²

2019

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In its analysis of the archaeologies and histories of the northern fringe of Europe, this book provides a focus on animistic-shamanistic cosmologies and the associated humanenvironment relations from the Neolithic to modern times. The North has fascinated Europeans throughout history, as an enchanted world of natural and supernatural marvels: a land of light and dark, of northern lights and the midnight sun, of witches and magic and of riches ranging from amber to oil. Northern lands conflate fantasies and realities. Rich archaeological, historical, ethnographic and folkloric materials combine in this book with cutting-edge theoretical perspectives drawn from relational ontologies and epistemologies, producing a fresh approach to the prehistory and history of a region that is pivotal to understanding Europe-wide processes, such as Neolithization and modernization. This book examines the mythical and actual northern worlds, with northern relational modes of perceiving and engaging with the world on the one hand, and the 'place' of the North in European culture on the other. This book is an indispensable read for scholars of archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies and folklore in northern Europe, as well as researchers interested in how the North is intertwined with developments in the broader European and Eurasian world. It provides a deep-time understanding of globally topical issues and conflicting interests, as expressed by debates and controversies around Arctic resources, nature preservation and indigenous rights.

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Northern Archaeology and Cosmology

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Lahelma²

2019

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“…Would the midnight sun be the reason for the use of sundials, in order to tell the time at a place where time for a foreigner could seem to be non-existent? Symonds et al (2015) have discussed the role of different time perceptions in the advent of modernity in Torneå. They have shown that several ways of measuring and dealing with time were used concurrently.…”

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Copper worlds: a historical archaeology of Abraham and Jakob Momma-Reenstierna and their industrial enterprise in the Torne River Valley, c. 1650–1680

Nordin

Ojala

2017

Acta Borealia

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This article analyses the industrial enterprise of the Dutch-born brothers Abraham and Jakob Momma-Reenstierna and their investments in Sápmi and the upper parts of the Torne River Valley, northern Sweden, during the second half of the seventeenth century. The aim is to explore the driving forces behind the industrial projects of the two brothers in a larger global and colonial context. With inspiration from recent critical studies on the simplifications, and Eurocentrism, in earlier understandings of the birth of modernity, we focus on the modernizing processes taking place in the upper part of the Torne River Valley as a meeting zone between local populations and landscapes and external capital. Metal extraction was booming in the seventeenth-century Sámi areas. Both the Danish-Norwegian and the Swedish Crowns invested heavily in the mining of silver, copper and iron. The scientific focus in archaeology and history has hitherto been very much on the state-governed projects, and limited interest has been directed towards the private enterprises. Moreover, there is also a need to study the roles of the local Finnish and Sámi populations, as well as the global connections, in these colonial industrial projects. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Maroon Archaeology beyond the Americas: A View from Kenya

Marshall

2018

Hist Arch

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Archaeological research on Maroons-that is, runaway slaves-has been largely confined to the Americas. This essay advocates a more global approach. It specifically uses two runaway slave communities in 19 th-century coastal Kenya to rethink prominent interpretive themes in the field, including "Africanisms," Maroons' connections to indigenous groups, and Maroon group cohesion and identity. This article's analysis demonstrates that the comparisons enabled by a more globalized perspective benefit the field. Instead of eliding historical and cultural context, these comparisons support the development of more localized and historically specific understandings of individual runaway slave communities both in Kenya and throughout the New World.

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Time, Seasonality, and Trade: Swedish/Finnish-Sámi Interactions in Early Modern Lapland

Cited by 6 publications

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Northern Archaeology and Cosmology

Northern Archaeology and Cosmology

Copper worlds: a historical archaeology of Abraham and Jakob Momma-Reenstierna and their industrial enterprise in the Torne River Valley, c. 1650–1680

Maroon Archaeology beyond the Americas: A View from Kenya

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