ABSTRACT
Fishing villages and their dynamic processes may be considered to be laboratories for studying places that are continuously in the making. Fishers move daily or seasonally. Some women and men working in fish plants, schools or other jobs leave the village to work, pursue higher education, go shopping and leave for weekends and holidays. It is this kind of mobility or travelling, and women's and men's ability to make changes, which are the focus of this article. The anthropologists and geographers focus on the fact that new identifications are being constructed and deconstructed faster and faster within modern and post-modern realities. With fishing villages in Finnmark as the focal point, we know that global contacts and relations are not new. The tourist magnet, North Cape, where the tourists enjoy the view and the midnight sun, is within 14 kilometres of the village.
