About the Hearth

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

David G. Anderson, Robert P. Wishart, Virginie Vaté, David G. Anderson, Robert P. Wishart, Virginie Vaté

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781782387879
  9780857459800
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857459817
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Museum Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Building a Home for Circumpolar Architecture: An Introduction
• 2. The Conical Lodge at the Centre of the Earth–Sky World
• 3. Mobile Architecture, Improvization and Museum Practice: Revitalizing the Tłįch Caribou Skin Lodge
• 4. Building Log Cabins in Teetł’it Gwich’in Country: Vernacular Architecture and Articulations of Presence
• 5. The Mobile Sámi Dwelling: From Pastoral Necessity to Ethno-political Master Paradigm
• 6. The Devitalization and Revitalization of Sámi Dwellings in Sweden
• 7. Family Matters: Representation of Swedish Sámi Households at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
• 8. The Life Histories of Intergenerational Households in Northern Norway 1865–1900: Gender and Household Leadership
• 9. Hunters in Transition: Sámi Hearth Row Sites, Reindeer Economies and the Organization of Domestic Space, 800–1300 A.D.
• 10. Building a Home for the Hearth: An Analysis of a Chukchi Reindeer Herding Ritual
• 11. The Perception of the Built Environment by Permanent Residents, Seasonal In-migrants and Casual Incomers in a Village in Northwest Russia
• 12. The Hearth, the Home and the Homeland: An Integrated Strategy for Memory Storage in Circumpolar Landscapes
• 13. The Fire is our Grandfather: Virtuous Practice and Narrative in Northern Siberia
• 14. Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North
• Notes on the Contributors
• References
• Index