On customary law and the Saami rights process in Norway
Subtitle: proceedings from a conference at the University of Tromsø, Feb. 1999
By: Tom G. Svensson (editor)
Series: Skriftserie -- nr. 8; Skriftserie (Senter for samiske studier) -- nr. 8
Publisher: Sámi Dutkamiid Guovddáš/Senter for Samiske Studier
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tromso, Norway
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Customary law; Congresses; Sami (European people); Civil rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: On customary law and the Saami rights process in Norway  -- Gordon R. Woodman -- Part I; title: Customary laws and customary legal rights: a comparative consideration of their nature and of the relationship between laws  -- Gordon R. Woodman; title: The role of cultural context in reconciling indigenous and state law: examples from the Canadian experience  -- Michael Asch; title: The notion of common law as an agent of change in Maori-Pakeha relations. An anthropological assessment of recent developments in bi-cultural New Zealand/Aotearoa  -- Per Mathiesen; title: Saami customary law: how long and where to find pieces of evidence  -- Kaisa Korpikaakko -- Part II; title: Saami customary law and legal perceptions as shown in court records from Finnmark 1620-1770  -- Allan Kristensen; title: Saami customs and legal perceptions. A review of the 1987-1997 archives of the Legal Aid Agency of Inner Finnmark  -- Ingar Nikolaisen; title: The moral foundation for the disqualification of aboriginal people's proprietary rights to land and political sovereignty  -- Nils Oskal; title: The legal history of reindeer herding in Finnmark County  -- Kirsti Strøm Bull; title: The state and the rejection of Saami customary law: superiority and inferiority in Norwegian-Saami relations  -- Steinar Pedersen; title: Land and Saami traditional rights  -- Elina Helander; title: The Saami customary rights of fishing: some preliminary views  -- Peter Thomas Örebech:; title: The historical and cultural fate oof the Neiden Siid́a as well as the developmental aspects of customary rights, legal conceptions and application of resources in the Skolt Saami area in Sør-Varanger -- Mikit Iwanowitz.