About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North

Published by Berghahn Books 2013

About the Hearth

Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North

Edited by: David G. Anderson , Robert P. Wishart and Virginie Vaté

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857459817

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor 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).

Robert P. Wishart is Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. His ethnographic work has been on the Gwich’in-Dene of the Mackenzie Delta in Northern Canada, with the Ojibwe of Ontario, and with Scottish fishers. He led an associated project on vernacular architecture in the Gwich’in settlement area for the HHH research consortium and is now a team member of the ERC funded project Arctic Domestication: Emplacing Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North.

Virginie Vaté is an anthropologist, researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. Since 1994, she has been doing research in Chukotka (Northeastern Siberia) and, since 2011, in Alaska. Within the ESF/BOREAS collaborative framework, she led an associated project on conversion to Christianity in Chukotka for the research program NEWREL (New religious Movements in the Russian North).

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).

Reviews

“Each chapter offers something interesting for the reader...One can list bright and sometimes provocative ideas put forth by each contributor…The main advantage of this book is the ability to spark interest among the most diverse groups of specialists in the field of indigenous cultures.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

“…being packed with ethnographic, historical, and archaeological data, [this volume] can serve as an introduction to regional circumpolar studies as well as to Northern communities, past and present, indigenous or simply local.” · Laboratorium. Russian Review of Social Research

“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 Stépanoff, Sorbonne

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Chapter 1 Building a Home for Circumpolar Architecture An Introduction Robert P. Wishart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 The Conical Lodge at the Centre of the Earth–Sky World Tim Ingold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter 3 Mobile Architecture, Improvization and Museum Practice Revitalizing the Tłįchǫ Caribou Skin Lodge Thomas D. Andrews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 4 Building Log Cabins in Teetł’it Gwich’in Country Vernacular Architecture and Articulations of Presence Robert P. Wishart and Jan Peter Laurens Loovers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Chapter 5 The Mobile Sámi Dwelling From Pastoral Necessity to Ethno-political Master Paradigm Ivar Bjørklund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 6 The Devitalization and Revitalization of Sámi Dwellings in Sweden Hugh Beach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Chapter 7 Family Matters Representation of Swedish Sámi Households at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century Isabelle Brännlund and Per Axelsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 8 The Life Histories of Intergenerational Households in Northern Norway 1865–1900 Gender and Household Leadership Hilde L. Jåstad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 9 Hunters in Transition Sámi Hearth Row Sites, Reindeer Economies and the Organization of Domestic Space, 800–1300 a.d. Petri Halinen, Sven-Donald Hedman and Bjørnar Olsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Chapter 10 Building a Home for the Hearth An Analysis of a Chukchi Reindeer Herding Ritual Virginie Vaté Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter 11 The Perception of the Built Environment by Permanent Residents, Seasonal In-migrants and Casual Incomers in a Village in Northwest Russia Maria Nakhshina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Chapter 13 The Fire is our Grandfather Virtuous Practice and Narrative in Northern Siberia John P. Ziker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Chapter 14 Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North David G. Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Archaeology; Museum Studies; Heritage Studies

eBook

Published: August 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780857459817