Beskrivelse over Finmarkens lapper 1767.
Subtitle: Efterord Af Asbjørn Nesheim
Publisher: Rosenkilde og Bagger
Published: 1975
Place of publication: København
Language: lat
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
Description: Knud Leem’s most important book is his topographic work, Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper deres Tungemaal, Levemaade og forrige Afgudsdyrkelse, (1767), supplied with comments from bishop J.E. Gunnerus and a large historic-religious study written by E.J. Jessen-Schardeböll. Here Leem describes in both Danish and Latin the life and livings amongst the contemporary Lapp population, their garments, clothing and dress, food and cooking, hunting, fishing and sport equipments, shamanism and folk belief, etc.. A rich, but in many cases distorted, illustrated material, enlarges the value of the documentation about elderly Lappish culture, at the same time as the book is among the foremost topographic work published in the Nordic countries during the 18th Century.
Notes: Dansk og latinsk tekst.
Fotografisk optryk af udg. Koebenhavn 1767.
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