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 4. The reconstructed life stories - an overview Before examining, in Chapter 5, the further history of the Sami from collectivization through to the end of the Soviet Union, it is time to summarize the life stories of my interviewees and place them in chronological order. The professional lives of all five women - who have as native languages, in addition to Russian, two very different dialects (Ter and Kildin Sami) and come from four different siidas - were played out to a large extent precisely in the above-mentioned period. Only in a later step (Chap­ ter 5) will individual information from the interviews be analysed in greater depth in the context of the historical events, and compared with the data from the existing literature. The narrative presentation, which has been kept as even as possible, should not obscure the fact that the information presented here is the result of an at times com­ plex and time-consuming reconstruction process. The interviews jump backwards and forwards in time, with extraneous insertions, while other important information is often entirely absent. At times the memories and ideas that emerge become so confused that the interviewer is no longer able to determine the time, place or peo­ ple involved with ultimate certainty. As already indicated in the chapter on theory and methodology, already in this first step we are not simply retelling biographies, but are at once undertaking a double interpretation. The view of things offered by the interviewees (first interpretation) was recorded, processed and supplemented by myself in order to reconstruct it as life story (second interpretation). Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 42