Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Nellejet ZorgdragerLinnaeus as Ethnographer of Sami Culture innaeus' most important contribution to ethnography is undoubtedly the information he gathered about the Sami during his trip to Lapland in 1732.He was then just 25 years old.Linnaeus of course was not an ethnographer in the sense the term is understood nowadays.Ethnography as a discipline was first developed into systematic form in the nineteenth century. 1 But Linnaeus can certainly be called an ethnographer according to the description given by Clifford Geertz in his book Works and Lives.The Anthropologist as Author (1988).According to Geertz ethnographers themselves think that: What a proper ethnographer ought properly to be doing is going out to places, coming back with information about how people live there, and making that information available to the professional community in practical form. 2 Geertz argues in his book that ethnography is not only this, but also a kind of writing, a way of "putting things to paper", knowing 1 The traditional anthropological fieldwork: living for a long time with a small group of people, sharing their lives in order to be able to study intensively as much aspects of their life and social organization as possible, developed first in the early twentieth century. 2 Geertz, Works and Lives.The Anthropologist as Author, 1988, p. 1.
Source: Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek
Author: Nellejet Zorgdrager
Language: Dutch
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1946231307