IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 623: Building Empires in the Far North, II

Sponsor:	Creating the New North Research Programme, Universitetet i Tromsø
Organiser:	Richard Holt, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet
Moderator/Chair:	Sigrun Høgetveit Berg, Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology, The Arctic University of Norwa
Paper 623-a	Introducing Landownership to the North? (Language: English) Miriam Tveit, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Universitetet i Nordland Index terms: Law, Mentalities, Social History
Paper 623-b	The Sámi and the Emerging National States: Tribute or Conquest? (Language: English) Lars Ivar Hansen, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet Index terms: Anthropology, Economics - General, Pagan Religions, Social History
Abstract	Integrating the Arctic regions into states based further south involved more than just territorial control. Hunting and fishing were prominent in the northern economy; the Sámi in particular were nomadic, with traditional practices of land-use. Defined landownership was a concept introduced from the south, largely for the Norse coastal strip. Norway, Sweden, and Novgorod had no ambitions of territorial conquest of the vast inland Sámi hunting areas, preferring to levy tribute from the same overlapping areas. Converting the Sámi to Catholic or Orthodox Christianity was the precursor to their incorporation into the national states.