Standardized housing concepts in the North : Sámi housing meets Western hygienic norms in twentieth-century Finland |
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Author: | Soikkeli, Anu1 |
Organizations: |
1Oulu University School of Architecture, Finland |
Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | closed |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022022821120 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Routledge,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2022-05-13 |
Description: |
AbstractThe Sámi are an indigenous people living in the northernmost parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland and in North-Western Russia. This chapter discusses the development of Sámi housing, and in particular the way cultural conceptions of purity and hygiene influenced Finnish efforts to valorize and improve it. It opens with a discussion on nineteenth-century descriptions of the Sámi way of life and then focuses on the post-Second World War period of reconstruction. The period was characterized by the large-scale introduction of type-house planning, especially in the war-ravaged province of Lapland, where the Finnish parts of the Sámi homeland were located. The reconstruction was guided by legislation, influenced by contemporary ideals of regulation and standardization and, as the chapter will show, by deep-rooted notions of purity and hygiene. While type-planned housing were seen (by the Finns) as a means of offering similar and equally good housing to both Finns and Sámi, it involved a major rupture in Sámi housing traditions and brought the Sámi culture and way of life closer to those of the Finnish majority. see all
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ISBN: | 978-0-367-25905-1 |
ISBN Print: | 978-0-367-25909-9 |
Pages: | 118 - 136 |
DOI: | 10.4324/9780367259099-10 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.4324/9780367259099-10 |
Host publication: |
In pursuit of healthy environments : historical cases on the environment–health nexus |
Host publication editor: |
Ruuskanen, Esa Hakosalo, Heini |
Type of Publication: |
A3 Book chapter |
Field of Science: |
615 History and archaeology 211 Architecture 520 Other social sciences |
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Copyright information: |
© 2021 The Author. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in In Pursuit of Healthy Environments on 13 November 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367259099. |