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About the Hearth : Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North - Robert P. Wishart

About the Hearth

Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North

By: Robert P. Wishart (Editor), Virginie Vaté (Editor), David G. Anderson (Editor)

eBook | 15 August 2013 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"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 Stepanoff, Sorbonne

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