addresses the ways in which Sámi people were particularly targeted in seventeenth-century Swedish and Norwegian witchcraft trials; examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century missionary campaigns; and contemplates what missionaries' accounts of Sámi religion can tell us about actual Sámi religious practice. These chapters read the mid-eighteenth century as a turning point in Sámi history, marking a natural end to the period studied by the book: At this point in time, a number of the earlier tendencies culminated and they assumed more permanent institutional forms, which again provided trajectories for further developments. From the last half of the eighteenth century, the Sámi had to cope with the fact that their land had been intersected by definitive, territorial national borders, that their customary rights and usage of resources were largely defined and evaluated on the basis of the states’ legal systems, and that their religious beliefs and practices, at least officially, had to comply with the states’ Christian religions. Through the infrastructure that had now been established, the states could, with increasing effectiveness, implement their numerous political ambitions in the Sámi areas. Reviews Sirpa Aalto, review, Scandinavian Journal of History, 40.2 (2015), 272-74 . Eero Muurimäki, review, Fennoscandia archaeologica, 33 (2016), 248-55. J. M. Nordin, review, Medieval Archaeology, 59.1 (2015), 398-99. References 2013 non-fiction books Sámi history Brill Publishers books