Hunters in Transition An Outline of Early Sami History

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.
Lars Ivar Hansen, Dr. Philos. (1991) is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at the Department of History and Religious Studies, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. He has published monographs and many articles on economic and social history, including inter-ethnic relations in northern Fennoscandia.
Bjørnar Olsen is Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. He has written a number of papers and books on northern prehistory and history, material culture, and archaeological theory.