Overview

Due to changing climates and demographics, questions of policy in the circumpolar north have focused attention on the very structures that people call home. Dwellings lie at the heart of many forms of negotiation. Based on years of in-depth research, this book presents and analyzes how the people of the circumpolar regions conceive, build, memorialize, and live in their dwellings. This book seeks to set a new standard for interdisciplinary work within the humanities and social sciences and includes anthropological work on vernacular architecture, environmental anthropology, household archaeology and demographics.

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Author:   David G. Anderson ,  Robert P. Wishart ,  Virginie Vaté
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.621kg
ISBN:  

9780857459800

ISBN 10:   0857459805
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Building a Home for Circumpolar Architecture, an Introduction Robert Wishart Chapter 2. The Conical Lodge at the Centre of the Earth-Sky World Tim Ingold Chapter 3. Mobile Architecture, Improvisation, and Museum Practice: Revitalizing the Tłįcho Caribou Skin Lodge Thomas D. Andrews Chapter 4. Building Log Cabins in Teetł’it Gwich’in Country: Vernacular Architecture and Articulations of Presence Robert Wishart and Jan Peter Laurens Loovers Chapter 5.The Mobile Sámi Dwelling – From A Pastoral Necessity to an Ethno-political Master Paradigm Ivar Bjørklund Chapter 6. The Devitalisation and Revitalisation of Sámi Dwellings in Sweden Hugh Beach Chapter 7. Family matters: Representation of Swedish Sámi households at the turn of the nineteenth century Isabelle Brännlund and Per Axelsson Chapter 8. The Life Histories of Intergenerational Households in Northern Norway 1865-1900: Gender and Household Leadership Hilde Sommerseth Chapter 9. Hunters in Transition: Sámi Hearth Row Sites, Reindeer Economies, and the Organisation of Domestic Space AD 800-1300 Petri Halinen, Sven-Donald Hedman and Bjørnar Olsen Chapter 10. Building a home for the hearth: An analysis of a Chukchi reindeer herding ritual Virginie Vaté Chapter 11. The Perception of the Built Environment by Permanent Residents, Seasonal In-Migrants and Casual Incomers in a Coastal Village in the Northwest of Russia Maria Nakhshina Chapter 12. The Hearth, the Home, and the Homeland: An Integrated Strategy for Memory Storage in Circumpolar Landscapes Gerald A. Oetelaar, David G. Anderson, and Peter C. Dawson Chapter 13.. The Fire Is Our Grandfather: Virtuous Practice and Narrative in Northern Siberia John P. Ziker Chapter 14. Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North David G. Anderson References Notes on the Contributors

Reviews

A very exciting book that addresses classical topics of anthropology of the North: housing, hearth and household, with a completely renewed approach. Chapters reconsider central issues in the study of material culture and social organization with a vivid ethnography and a compelling theoretical questioning. * Charles Stepanoff, Sorbonne

Author Information

David G. Anderson is Professor of Anthropology and Chair in Anthropology of the North at the University of Aberdeen. He was the leader of the collaborative research project entitled BOREAS Homes, Hearths and Households in the Circumpolar North and is presently the PI of an ERC-funded advanced grant entitled Arctic Domestication: Emplacing Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North. He is the author of a monograph on Taimyr Evenkis and Dolgans, and the editor or co-editor of several collections published by Berghahn Books, most recently, The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions (2011).

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