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About the Hearth
. Ed(S): Anderson, David G.; Wishart, Robert P.; Vate, Virginie
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Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Anderson, David G.; Wishart, Robert P.; Vate, Virginie. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1QMP; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 277 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782387879
SKU
V9781782387879
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Anderson, David G.; Wishart, Robert P.; Vate, Virginie
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 ... Read more
Reviews for About the Hearth
“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 ... Read more