Social and economic problems of Finnish Lapland

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In this paper I review some of the fields in which Lapps are involved in the over-all development, or lack of development, of northern Finland. I shall limit my perspective in two ways: first, I am concerned to document those issues that directly affect the Lapps at present. This present is taken as 1972, since I was in north-east Lapland in 1971–72, carrying out fieldwork among the Skolt Lapps; my view is thus somewhat biassed to the east (Ingold, 1971). Secondly, I am not directly concerned with the position of Lapps in Norway, Sweden, and the Soviet Union. This is not to deny that there exists a great deal in common among Lapps of these different countries. Equally, the fortunes of Lapps have been crucially affected by the different circumstances pertaining in the nation-states which, through history, have been drawn up around them. My subject, then, concerns how Lapps fare, economically, culturally and politically, in the context of modern Finland.

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