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The Sami of the Kola Peninsula Through these interviews a voice is given to those people who otherwise rarely have the opportunity to express themselves, and whose perspective remains mostly un­ known. And yet it is precisely their vision that embodies the regulating forces, as typ­ ical representatives of a social group. Narrative interviews - including memory and life history interviews - develop in this way their full potential in the context of a life- world orientation of historical science. "The life world, understood in its totality of both natural and social world, is both the stage and the target of my and our mutual activity. "33 Starting from on this basic definition (Urdefinition) of life world, that revolutionized the social sciences, the following can be considered a good characterization of a life world-directed historiography: "Unlike the concept of environment, which refers to the natural and social envi­ ronment of a person or a group, the human individual is [...] himself at the centre of the life-world approach. From this vantage point the eye falls on the environ­ mental conditions and the symbolic orders, interpretation patterns, ideologies, norms and values. "34 In oral history interviews "the operation of a system is reconstructed "35f rom the per­ spective of individuals and "insights into historical events are made possible that were barred by the limitation to more general structures" .36 Each time an interview for historical purposes is undertaken, it is important to es­ tablish at the outset how it is to be performed. In this the following distinction is of central importance :37 33 Schutz/Luckmann 1979, vol. 1, 28. 34 Haumann 2006, 48. 35 Haumann 2006, 50. 36 Haumann 2006, 51. 37Cf.: Gerbel/Sieder 1988, 192. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 13