Bjørg Evjen

• Professor (Full) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

The article studies the Sámi experiences during the ‘German era’ in Norway and Finland, 1940–1944, before the Lapland War. The Germans ruled as occupiers in Norway, but had no jurisdiction over the civilians in Finland, their brothers-in-arms. In general, however, encounters between the local people and the Germans appear to have been cordial in bo...

Background: When people in Northern Norway get ill, they often use traditional medicine. The global aim of this study was to examine the extended family networks’ function and responsibility in cases of illness in the family, in two Northern Norwegian communities with a population of mixed ethnicity. Methods: Semi-structured individual interviews w...

People with Sami and Norwegian background are frequent users of traditional folk medicine (TM). Traditional healing, such as religious prayers of healing (reading) and the laying on of hands, are examples of commonly used modalities. The global aim of this study is to examine whether health personnel’s knowledge, attitudes and experiences of tradit...

A century and half ago, the encounter between the researcher and those (s)he researched were described and seen from the vantage point of the researcher. 'The others' participated in the encounters, but were seldom asked for advice regarding the approach or to provide their own perspectives. But this has changed. Originally playing the passive role...

During the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Sami and the Kvens were classified and categorized in different ways by the Norwegian state authorities in their official censuses. The process whereby various categorization principles were applied was heavily imbued with ideological and political considerations. During the eighteenth...

The Sami husbandry has traditionally incorporated reindeer, which did not belong to the nomadic household. According to the national census from 1875, this system was found in many parts of Norway. Among the counties, Nordland stood out having the highest number of households owing custodial reindeer. Most of the households were non-Sami, and most...

Physical anthropologists carried out field work in Tysfjord in 1914 and again in 1921. Amongst other things they measured the heads of part of the Sami population. This article attempts to put these events into a broader context by focusing on the history of physical anthropological science as well as relevant social and political conditions.

Oppgaven har som mål å belyse arbeiderkvinners hverdag på det ensidige industristedet Sulitjelma (Sulis), og endringer i perioden 1900 til 1930. Fire kvinnegrupper er valgt ut: kokkene, skeiderskene, hushjelpene og husmødrene. Skeiderskenes arbeidsoppgave var å skille malmklumpene ut fra gråsteinen som kom ut av gruva. Arbeiderkvinnenes arbeid og l...