International Human Adaptability Studies in Skolt Sami Societies in the 1960s.
This article investigates the work of a group of scientists who spent their summers in Sami villages in Northern Finland researching a then-emerging topic: human adaptability. Although their research began as a Finnish endeavour, based on the assumption that the people they examined – the Skolt Sami...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 218 - 247 |
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