About the Hearth (eBook)

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.

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).

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).

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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

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Notes on the Contributors