Description
| Product ID: | 9783868288513 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Title: | Slash & Burn |
| Authors: | Author: Terje Abusdal |
| Page Count: | 180 |
| Subjects: | Photography and photographs, Photography & photographs |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This awarded project draws a picture both mysterious and impressive of the Forest Finns, a minority group in Norway that lives in close contact with nature. Finnskogen - directly translated as The Forest of the Finns - is a large, contiguous forest belt along the Norwegian-Swedish border, where farming families from Finland settled in the early 1600s. The immigrants - called Forest Finns - were slash-and-burn farmers. This ancient agricultural method yielded plentiful crops, but required large forested areas as the soil was quickly exhausted. The Forest Finns'' understanding of nature was rooted in an Eastern shamanistic tradition, and they are often associated with magic and mystery. This photographic project draws on these beliefs while investigating what it means to be a Forest Finn today, some 400 years and twelve generations later. |
| Imprint Name: | Kehrer Verlag |
| Publisher Name: | Kehrer Verlag |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-07-12 |
