Allemann, L. The sami of the Kola Peninsula : about the life of an ethnic minority in the Soviet Union / Lukas Allemann ; [transl. by Michael Lomax]. - Rovaniemi : University of Lapland Printing Centre, 2013. - 151 p. : ill., map, portr. ; 25 см. - (Senter for samiske studier, Skriftserie ; 19).

Lukas Allemann Focused Interview Open, life history interview The researcher asks specific questions, based on hypotheses developed in ad­ vance. The researcher is in principle open to all topics that the narrator picks up of his own accord. According to this categorization, open life history interviews have been conducted for the present study. Finding suitable informants was not a particularly difficult task as for this research project we were looking to hear, not from an elite, but from repre­ sentatives of the 'silent mass'. Details of the criteria by which the interviewees for the current study were chosen can be found in the section Recruitment of Interviewees (Chapter 2.3.1). That fact that memory interviews produce large quantities of subjective material is obvious. This should not be seen as an obstacle but as a virtue. "Case reconstructions of narrated life stories serve [...] to uncover cause-and- effect mechanisms from specific concrete cases. Against the backdrop of a dia­ lectical conception of individual and general, one can start from the principle that the general can be found in the particular. "38 The interdependence of subjective and objective becomes particularly visible in the interview. Facts come to the fore only through the prism of human experience. For this reason, not only the facts, but also how these facts are experienced and the so­ cial regulation of the same form an inalienable part of history .39 "If we accept [...] that the validity of a regulatory and direction-giving structure is already visible in the individual case, the narrative-biographical approach per­ mits accurate reconstructions of social structures, taking full account of real ex­ perience. "40 38Rosenthal 1994, 134. 39Cf.: Gerbel/Sieder 1988, 200. 40 Fischer-Rosenthal/Rosenthal 1997, 157. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 14