About the hearth : perspectives on the home, hearth and household in the circumpolar north / edited by David G. Anderson, Robert P. Wishart and Virginie Vaté.

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This collection of scholarly articles is intended, in part, to study the anthropology of the North through the documentation of the history of hearths (that is, hearth, household, and home) in the circumpolar world. Its purpose is also to "reinvigorate[e] the study of circumpolar architecture, religious practice, social organization and indigenous political expression." Fourteen chapters contributed by scholars from North America, Europe, Scandinavia, and Asia add up to an unprecedentedly thorough study of how the peoples of the circumpolar North "conceive, build, memorialize, and live in their dwellings ... [including] anthropological work on vernacular architecture, environmental anthropology, household archaeology and demographics." The majority of the 14 chapters deal with the house types across time and space of the Sami people of Scandinavia. Other topics include Thicho caribou skin lodges, Teetl'it Gwich'in log cabins, Chukchi reindeer rituals, and the home life of various groups in Siberia and the Russian circumpolar region. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. W. R. Morrison emeritus, University of Northern British Columbia