REVIEWS • 421 SAMI CULTURE IN A NEW ERA: THE NORWEGIAN

University, edited Sami Culture in a New Era to provide […] information about the indigenous population of North-ern Fennoscandia [through]…a rather comprehensive in-troduction to a variety of…themes [that]…offer…a state-of-the-art report on contemporary Sami studies in Norway (p. 5 – 6). He says that the book’s nine essays illustrate “the ways in which research, education and communication serve to shape and promote [self] identity in a modern society” (p. 16). Anthropologist Harald Eidheim asserts that the 1970s Alta hydroelectric project, begun in the 1950s, became a defining moment in Sami activism as a unifying political cause, which connected the Sami Movement to global indigenous causes. The construction attracted interna