About the hearth : perspectives on the home, hearth, and household in the circumpolar north

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. Building A Home For Circumpolar Architecture : An Introduction / Robert P. Wishart -- The Conical Lodge At The Centre Of The Earth, Sky World / Tim Ingold -- Mobile Architecture, Improvization And Museum Practice : Revitalizing The Tłįchǫ Caribou Skin Lodge / Thomas D. Andrews -- Building Log Cabins In Teetłʼit Gwichʼin Country : Vernacular Architecture And Articulations Of Presence / Robert P. Wishart And Jan Peter Laurens Loovers -- The Mobile Sámi Dwelling : From Pastoral Necessity To Ethno-political Master Paradigm / Ivan Bjørklund -- The Devitalization And Revitalization Of Sámi Dwellings In Sweden / Hugh Beach -- Family Matters : Representation Of Swedish Sámi Households At The Turn Of The Nineteenth Century / Isabelle Brännlund And Per Axelsson -- The Life Histories Of Intergenerational Households In Northern Norway 1865-1900 : Gender And Household Leadership / Hilde L. Jåstad -- Hunters In Transition : Sámi Hearth Row Sites, Reindeer Economies And The Organization Of Domestic Space, 800-1300 A.d. / Petri Halinen, Sven-donald Hedman And Bjørnar Olsen -- Building A Home For The Hearth : An Analysis Of A Chukchi Reindeer Herding Ritual / Virginie Vaté -- The Perception Of The Built Environment By Permanent Residents, Seasonal In-migrants And Casual Incomers In A Village In Northwest Russia / Maria Nakhshina -- 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 -- The Fire Is Our Grandfather : Virtuous Practice And Narrative In Northern Siberia / John P. Ziker -- Home, Hearth And Household In The Circumpolar North / David G. Anderson. Edited By David Anderson, Robert P. Wishart, And Virginie Vaté. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 289-312) And Index. Title Page 3 Copyright 4 Contents 5 List of Illustrations 7 Acknowledgements 11 Chapter 1 Building a Home for Circumpolar Architecture 13 Chapter 2 The Conical Lodge at the Centre of the Earth-Sky World 23 Chapter 3 Mobile Architecture, Improvization and Museum Practice 41 Chapter 4 Building Log Cabins in Teetł’it Gwich’in Country 66 Chapter 5 The Mobile Sámi Dwelling 81 Chapter 6 The Devitalization and Revitalization of Sámi Dwellings in Sweden 92 Chapter 7 Family Matters 115 Chapter 8 The Life Histories of Intergenerational Households in Northern Norway 1865-1900 135 Chapter 9 Hunters in Transition 164 Chapter 10 Building a Home for the Hearth 195 Chapter 11 The Perception of the Built Environment by Permanent Residents, Seasonal In-migrants and Casual Incomers in a Village in Northwest Russia 212 Chapter 12 The Hearth, the Home and the Homeland 235 Chapter 13 The Fire is our Grandfather 261 Chapter 14 Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North 274 Notes on the Contributors 295 References 301 Index 325 The circumpolar Arctic is at the center of multiple controversies as international competition over resources threatens the places that many people call home. This collection takes the home and the hearth as a central site revealing the ways in which history, cosmology, demography, colonialism, and architecture are intertwined.