People in Unfamiliar Environments
Abstract
The 1995 volume of Ethnologia Fennica explored the relationship between people and their environments from the perspective of constructed, natural, historical, mythical, and technological environments. This thematic of man and the environmcnt is further extended and expanded in the current volume of Ethnologia Fennica. The emphasis is on cultural environment, and the approaches take focus on the experiences, ideas, and values of the individual the five articles of the volume discuss how moving to an unfamiliar environment affects people's everyday life, or how people make themselves adapt to the prevailing customs and conceptions characteristic to the culture of their new environment. The articles cover a large geographical and cultural sphere from the Finnic inhabitants of the United States and Northem Norway to the Eastern Mari in Bashkortostan and further to the Ghanaians living in Finland and the Finland-Swedes.
