Acknowledgements; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; 2 Changing Views on the Origins of the Sámi; 3 Economic Specialization and Ethnic Consolidation: NorthernHunting Societies in the Iron Age and Early Middle Ages; 4 Colonization, Contacts and Change, 1200-1550; 5 State Integration and Sámi ca. 1550-1750; 6 Missionaries and Shamans: Sámi Religion and the CampaignAgainst it; Epilogue; Chronology; Table of Relations; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Personal Names; Index of Place Names
Summary
Hunters in Transition provides a new outline of the early history of the Sámi and discusses issues such as the formation of Sámi ethnicity, interaction with chieftain and state societies, and the transition from hunting to reindeer herding
