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About the Hearth David G. Anderson

About the Hearth By David G. Anderson

About the Hearth by David G. Anderson


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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.

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About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North by David G. Anderson

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.

About the Hearth 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 Stepanoff, Sorbonne

About David G. Anderson

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).

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 Tli cho Caribou Skin Lodge
Thomas D. Andrews

Chapter 4. Building Log Cabins in Teetl'it Gwich'in Country: Vernacular Architecture and Articulations of Presence
Robert Wishart and Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

Chapter 5.The Mobile Sami Dwelling - From A Pastoral Necessity to an Ethno-political Master Paradigm
Ivar Bjorklund

Chapter 6. The Devitalisation and Revitalisation of Sami Dwellings in Sweden
Hugh Beach

Chapter 7. Family matters: Representation of Swedish Sami households at the turn of the nineteenth century
Isabelle Brannlund 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: Sami Hearth Row Sites, Reindeer Economies, and the Organisation of Domestic Space AD 800-1300
Petri Halinen, Sven-Donald Hedman and Bjornar Olsen

Chapter 10. Building a home for the hearth: An analysis of a Chukchi reindeer herding ritual
Virginie Vate

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

Additional information

NLS9781782387879
9781782387879
1782387870
About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North by David G. Anderson
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Berghahn Books
2015-10-01
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