{"product_id":"about-the-hearth-9780857459800","title":"About the Hearth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDue 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid 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 Cir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e · Social Anthropology\/Anthropologie sociale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…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.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e · Laboratorium. Russian Review of Social Research\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eA 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\u003c\/em\u003e.” \u003cstrong\u003e· Charles Stépanoff\u003c\/strong\u003e, Sorbonne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Building a Home for Circumpolar Architecture, an Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRobert Wishart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Conical Lodge at the Centre of the Earth-Sky World\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTim Ingold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mobile Architecture, Improvisation, and Museum Practice: Revitalizing the Tłįcho Caribou Skin Lodge\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThomas D. Andrews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Building Log Cabins in Teetł’it Gwich’in Country: Vernacular Architecture and Articulations of Presence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRobert Wishart and Jan Peter Laurens Loovers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003eThe Mobile Sámi Dwelling – From A Pastoral Necessity to an Ethno-political Master Paradigm\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eIvar Bjørklund\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Devitalisation and Revitalisation of Sámi Dwellings in Sweden\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHugh Beach\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Family matters: Representation of Swedish Sámi households at the turn of the nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eIsabelle Brännlund and Per Axelsson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Life Histories of Intergenerational Households in Northern Norway 1865-1900: Gender and Household Leadership\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHilde Sommerseth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hunters in Transition: Sámi Hearth Row Sites, Reindeer Economies, and the Organisation of Domestic Space AD 800-1300\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePetri Halinen, Sven-Donald Hedman and Bjørnar Olsen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Building a home for the hearth: An analysis of a Chukchi reindeer herding ritual\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVirginie Vaté\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Perception of the Built Environment by Permanent Residents, Seasonal In-Migrants and Casual Incomers in a Coastal Village in the Northwest of Russia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaria Nakhshina\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Hearth, the Home, and the Homeland: An Integrated Strategy for Memory Storage in Circumpolar Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGerald A. 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