TY - JOUR T1 - Kinship and Settlements: Sami Residence Patterns in the Fennoscandian Alpine Areas around A.D. 1000 JF - Arctic Anthropology JO - Arctic Anthropol SP - 97 LP - 110 DO - 10.1353/arc.0.0005 VL - 45 IS - 1 AU - Ingela Bergman AU - Lars Liedgren AU - Lars Östlund AU - Olle Zackrisson Y1 - 2008/02/06 UR - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/45/1/97.abstract N2 - The transition from a hunter-gatherer economy to reindeer pastoralism among the Sami of northern Fennoscandia has been the subject of much debate among scholars concerned with Sami history. This paper adds a new angle to the discussion by focusing on the social structure of a Sami society in the high mountain area of northern Sweden around A.D. 1000. The spatial and temporal patterns of the so-called stállo settlements were analyzed in relation to the seventeenth and eighteenth century demography and community organization of a historically known Sami society. It is proposed that the overall regularity of stállo dwellings, arranged close to each other and in rows, reflects an emphasis on kinship relations and the consolidation of village solidarity. The consolidation of the local community, expressed by the spatial structuring of dwellings, formed a means of addressing internal tensions in times of dramatic and substantial change related to the transition to reindeer pastoralism.Ingela Bergman, The Silver Museum, Storgatan 20, S-93090 Arjeplog, SwedenLars Liedgren, The Silver Museum, Storgatan 20, S-93090 Arjeplog, SwedenLars Östlund, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU, S-901 83 Umeå, SwedenOlle Zackrisson, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU, S-901 83, Umeå, Sweden ER -