ABSTRACT
I was being zoomed along a bumpy dirt road at 50 kilometers per hour on the back seat of an all-terrain vehicle. Every few hundred meters a yellow plastic wrapper around a pine tree declared “Border zone-no trespassing without permission.” The road followed the Russian border in the Lappi Reindeer Herding Cooperative in Upper Lapland, Finland. It was a balmy sub-Arctic August morning in 2002, and my driver and guide was the Sámi reindeer herder, Hannu Magga. I was doing fieldwork for a research project funded by the European Union on sustainable reindeer management in northern Fennoscandia.
