This book is based on the papers presented in the "Transcultural Encounters Symposium" that took place at the University of Oulu on December 12th–13th, 2013. It was the first international event organized by the new Transcultural Encounters research community, which was established in 2012 in the Faculty of Humanities at the same university. It convened nine research groups to the crossroads of history, archaeology, cultural anthropology, literary research, cultural research, Sámi studies, language research, and socio-linguistics.


Artikkelit / Articles:

Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Kuisma Korhonen, Kari Alenius & Harri Mantila, Approaches to Transcultural Encounters


Globalities

Olavi K. Fält, Globalisation and Cultural Encounters: Japan as a
Resource for Global Information Networks in the End of 19th Century

Juha Sahi, Hunting for New Markets: Networks of Trade between
Finland and Japan during the Interwar Period

Dean J. Kotlowski, Resisting Nazism: Paul V. McNutt, the United
States, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1945

Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, Finnish World War II Refugees’ Intended
Impact on Alaska

Anni-Siiri Länsman & Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Global Trends, Local Contradictions − Challenges of Transnational
Sámi Politics in 2000s

Mirette Modarress-Sadeghi, Kauppaa kulttuuriperinnöllä – näkökulma arkeologisten esineiden arvottamiseen
Summary: Trade in cultural heritage – perspectives on heritage values of archaeological objects


Northern Encounters

Ville Hakamäki, Artefacts, Communication and the Social Change in the Northern Finland Interior ca. 800–1300 AD

Matti Leiviskä, Paikannimistö Siikajokilaakson asutushistorian
lähteenä
Summary: Toponymy as a Source for the Settlement History of Siikajoki River Valley

Jukka Nyyssönen, Väinö Tanner in the Field – Early Encounters
between a State Official and Sami Herders during the Reindeer Pasture Crisis in Torne Lappmark

Matti Enbuske, The Administrative Authorities of the Province of
Lapland and the Question of Skolt Sámi Traditional Use of Land in
the 1930s

Matti Mäntylä, Kirje Kekkoselle – johtajan ja pohjoissuomalaisten kohtaamisia
Summary: A letter to the President – Kekkonen and the citizens of the north meet


Representations and Communications

Marika Rauhala, Image, Identity, Foreignness: Approaches to
Religious Prejudice in Antiquity

Tiago João Queimada e Silva, Christians and Muslims in the
Medieval Portuguese Chronicles: Political Uses of the Memories of the Reconquista and D. Afonso Henriques

Kari Alenius, A Clash of Rhetoric Cultures: The Soviet Union and
Great Britain Disputing on the Palestinian Question in the UN Security Council in 1948

Veronika Susova-Salminen, Damnation of the Centre? Ambivalence and Cultural Diversity in the Notion of Central Europe in the 1980s and 1990s

Arto Hirvelä, Aki-Mauri Huhtinen & Tommi Kangasmaa,
Key Leader Engagement in Strategic Communication