PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
ED  - Spangen, Marte
ED  - Salmi, Anna-Kaisa
ED  - Äikäs, Tiina
AU  - Ingela Bergman
AU  - Greger Hörnberg
TI  - Early Cereal Cultivation at Sámi Settlements: Challenging the Hunter–Herder Paradigm?
AID  - 10.3368/aa.52.2.57
DP  - 2015 Jul 27
TA  - Arctic Anthropology
PG  - 57--66
VI  - 52
IP  - 2
4099  - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/52/2/57.short
4100  - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/52/2/57.full
SO  - Arctic Anthropol2015 Jul 27; 52
AB  - It has been generally accepted that cultivation in northernmost Sweden was intrinsically associated with the migration of Nordic farmers into the area and that indigenous Sámi societies followed purely hunter-gatherer or pastoralist subsistence strategies. In this paper, it is argued that the discursive connotations of cultivation have promoted a dichotomy between Sámi and Swedish idioms that are still being reproduced among scholars, as well the general public. Recent palynological findings in pollen records challenge prevailing views on the time, course, and cultural context of the introduction of (cereal) cultivation and call for a redefinition of traditional Sámi subsistence, as well as for a decolonization of the cultivation concept.