Vol. 8 · No. 1 · 2004
The Long Walk VI
An Interview with Robert Paine in Three Acts

Hugh Beach

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March, 2001 Robert Paine, and Hugh Beach, two enthusiasts of Saami ethnopolitics, reindeer pastoralism and northern studies in general, have ensconced themselves at the latter's home in Stockholm. Their mutual project assignment from the journal Nomadic Peoples is to come away with the makings of an interview article featuring Robert, and toward this end the table at which the two white-haired anthropologists sit is strewn with papers and books on herding, and cluttered with cassette tapes, microphone, recorder and a freshly opened bottle of Glenfiddich.