About the Hearth

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).

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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 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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