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标题：Ethnic and Cultural Space of the Eastern Sami (Skolts) of the Northern Frontier of Russia and Norway-Denmark in the XVIII century
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作者：Konstantin S. Zaikov ; Konstantin S. Zaikov ; Natalia S. Avdonina 等
期刊名称：Bylye Gody
印刷版ISSN：2073-9745
出版年度：2019
卷号：51
期号：1
页码：29-40
DOI：10.13187/bg.2019.1.29
出版社：Sochi State University
摘要：The article focuses on little-known pages of the northern frontier history – the Russian-Norwegian borderlands, specifically the description of the ethnic and cultural space of the Eastern, Orthodox Sami (Skolts) group in the XVIII century. Through the wide range of sources, from the Russian and Norwegian archives, the authors reconstruct the boundaries of the territorial possessions of Sami groups, and the demographics of the Skolts’ pogosts. The authors explain that the status position of the village headman, as the administrative and political leader of the pogost among the skolts from the 18th century was growing. The headman served as the executive and judicial authorities of the pogost, which was encouraged by the Russian county administration. Economic activities of the Skolts could be wider than the administrative borders of the Siyits and vice versa. In this regard, the described boundaries of the pogosts in Norwegian and Russian sources is only a representation of local and regional authorities on the presence of fixed administrative and economic boundaries of collectives. This difference is due to the asymmetry in the perception of space by the semi-nomadic Sami population of the borderland and the Russian administration. The reconstruction of the demographics of the skolts demonstrates that during the XVIIIth century, there was a constant decrease in the population with the reduction of the fishing capacity, the elasticity of the economic borders and the gradual settlement of the skolts’ territories by the Norwegian Sami.
关键词：Russian-Norwegian borderland; Far North; frontier; border; Sami; Skolts.