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 sponsibility for fishing in the freshwater lakes, berry picking, sewing and cooking, while men were responsible for the reindeer and hunting .67 Certain features of the traditional way of herding on the Kola Peninsula differ sharply from those of the other reindeer herding peoples of the far north of Russia and Siberia. These are the relatively small size of the herds and the fact that the rein deer graze unattended during the summer months (vol'nyj vypas), the reindeer there fore being considered as semi-domesticated .68 In November, the animals are round ed up with the help of dogs and driven south, where they graze closer to the Sami's winter settlements (pogosty zimnie, in contrast to the summer settlements - letnie pogosty) and can therefore be protected more easily against wolves. 69 This produces the traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle of the Sami, in contrast to that of the Komi who had earlier moved to a sedentary lifestyle with reindeer breeding geared towards expanding herd counts. None of my interviewees had taken part directly in this way of life, but Nina Afanas'eva spoke in this respect about her parents: О: [...] а потом переезжали вот, скажем, наши саамы, мои родители, все кто жили в этом маленьком поселке, они сконцентрировались в зимней деревне. Это по-саамски «Тальв Сейд». Это было местное название, по- русски Семиостровье, это в глубине материка Кольского полуострова. Переезжали в лесную зону. Там, понимаешь, дров больше и ягель лучше для прокормки вот оленей. Кочевая жизнь с оленем была связана. // A: [ . ] Later [at the beginning of the winter], the Sami - my parents among them - moved to a winter village; it's called «Tal'v Sejd» in our language. This was a lo cal name, in Russian it's called Semiostrov'e and is located deep inside the Kola 67Cf.: Klement'ev/Slygina 2003, 108 f. 68Cf.: Luk'jancenko 1994, 310. 69Cf.: Robinson/Kassam 1998, 12 f. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 32
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