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).

“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.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale“…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.” · Laboratorium. Russian Review of Social Research“A 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.” · Charles Stépanoff, Sorbonne

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Building a Home for Circumpolar Architecture, an IntroductionRobert WishartChapter 2. The Conical Lodge at the Centre of the Earth-Sky WorldTim IngoldChapter 3. Mobile Architecture, Improvisation, and Museum Practice: Revitalizing the Tłįcho Caribou Skin LodgeThomas D. AndrewsChapter 4. Building Log Cabins in Teetł’it Gwich’in Country: Vernacular Architecture and Articulations of PresenceRobert Wishart and Jan Peter Laurens LooversChapter 5.The Mobile Sámi Dwelling – From A Pastoral Necessity to an Ethno-political Master ParadigmIvar BjørklundChapter 6. The Devitalisation and Revitalisation of Sámi Dwellings in SwedenHugh BeachChapter 7. Family matters: Representation of Swedish Sámi households at the turn of the nineteenth centuryIsabelle Brännlund and Per AxelssonChapter 8. The Life Histories of Intergenerational Households in Northern Norway 1865-1900: Gender and Household LeadershipHilde SommersethChapter 9. Hunters in Transition: Sámi Hearth Row Sites, Reindeer Economies, and the Organisation of Domestic Space AD 800-1300Petri Halinen, Sven-Donald Hedman and Bjørnar OlsenChapter 10. Building a home for the hearth: An analysis of a Chukchi reindeer herding ritualVirginie VatéChapter 11. The Perception of the Built Environment by Permanent Residents, Seasonal In-Migrants and Casual Incomers in a Coastal Village in the Northwest of RussiaMaria NakhshinaChapter 12. The Hearth, the Home, and the Homeland: An Integrated Strategy for Memory Storage in Circumpolar LandscapesGerald A. Oetelaar, David G. Anderson, and Peter C. DawsonChapter 13.. The Fire Is Our Grandfather: Virtuous Practice and Narrative in Northern SiberiaJohn P. ZikerChapter 14. Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar NorthDavid G. AndersonReferencesNotes on the Contributors