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About the Hearth: Perspectiveson the Home, Hearth, and Hosuehold in the Circumpolar North
David G. Anderson
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Description for About the Hearth: Perspectiveson the Home, Hearth, and Hosuehold in the Circumpolar North
Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Anderson, David G.; Wishart, Robert P.; Vate, Virginie. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MTN; JHBD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
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
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857459800
SKU
V9780857459800
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99-15
About David G. Anderson
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: Perspectiveson the Home, Hearth, and Hosuehold in the Circumpolar North
“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