Johan Turi: First Author of the Sámi

Mikael Svonni

DOI:10.1353/scd.2011.0018

Corpus ID: 161737016

Johan Turi: First Author of the Sámi

@article{Svonni2011JohanTF,
  title={Johan Turi: First Author of the S{\'a}mi},
  author={Mikael Svonni},
  journal={Scandinavian Studies},
  year={2011},
  volume={83},
  pages={483 - 490}
}

Mikael Svonni

Published 2011

History

Scandinavian Studies

ONE-HUNDRED YEARS AGO in the year 1910, Johan Turi's book Muitalus samiid birra (An Account of the Sami) first appeared. It was the first time that a Sami had written a book regarding the Sami situation in Sami. The book's genesis has its own particular history. Now, a century after the work's appearance, a new edition has been prepared based on Turi's original handwritten manuscript (Muitalus Samiid Birra). The present collection of essays examines Turi's masterpiece from a variety of… CONTINUE READING

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