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About the hearth
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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Architectures of domestication: on emplacing human-animal relations in the North
This article explores human-animal relationships in the North by calling for a fresh examination of the infrastructures and architectures which inscribe them. We draw attention to the self-limiting quality of Arctic architectures which are designed to emphasize mutual autonomy. This approach challenges models that would create a crisp, clear separation between domestication as constituting a form of domination or a type of mutualism. By describing several key infrastructures of domestication - of tethers, enclosures, and traps - we hope to draw attention to the silencing of these domestic inventories. Revisiting the metaphor of the domus, we focus on the lands where these relationships are elaborated, re-linking Arctic architectures to places of encounter. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork mainly from Northern North America and various sites in Northern Eurasia, we present an ethnographically informed account that stresses the nuanced way in which strategies of control are blended with those of care and comfort, creating unbounded homes that are good to live in. L'article explore les relations entre humains et animaux dans le Nord en invitant à réexaminer les infrastructures et les architectures qui les circonscrivent. Les auteurs attirent l'attention sur la qualité auto-délimitée des architectures arctiques, conçues pour accentuer l'autonomie mutuelle. Cette approche remet en question les modèles qui voient une séparation clairement tranchée entre la domestication comme forme de domination ou comme type de mutualisme. En décrivant plusieurs infrastructures essentielles de la domestication (longes, enclos et pièges), les auteurs espèrent attirer l'attention sur ces équipements domestiques largement oubliés. Revisitant la métaphore de la domus, ils se concentrent sur les terres où ces relations s'élaborent, rétablissant le lien entre les architectures arctiques et les lieux de rencontre. À partir d'un travail de terrain approfondi, réalisé principalement dans le nord de l'Amérique du Nord et sur différents sites dans le nord de l'Eurasie, leur compte-rendu ethnographique souligne les diverses manières dont les stratégies de contrôle se mêlent aux stratégies de soin et de confort, créant des foyers sans démarcations où il fait bon vivre.
Journal Article
‘We ate lots of fish back then’: the forgotten importance of fishing in Gwich'in country
This article attempts to reconcile the fact that fishing has been and continues to be a large part of the Gwich'in local economy with the fact that fishing has been neglected in both popular and scientific accounts of Gwich'in practice. The article puts forth an explanation for why fishing has been neglected while at the same time documenting the corpus of fishing activities included in the yearly round. It also situates fishing as an important, but largely underestimated, part of the Canadian fur trade and explains how fish came to be used by traders and Gwich'in in a system of advances that benefited both parties. As a so-called secondary activity, fishing is entangled in Gwich'in history and their current way of life, and this article challenges the idea that it can be easily separated from other land based activities.
Journal Article
Building Log Cabins in Teetƚ’it Gwich’in Country
The introduction of the log cabin as a type of housing in the Canadian sub-arctic has been positioned as an indication of the far-reaching implications of culture change during the Canadian fur trade. Indeed, cabins have been part of a larger narrative about the apparent radical departure of Canada’s northern Aboriginal peoples from a land-based, foraging economy.
We would like to argue that this is far too simplistic an argument, at least for the Teetƚ’it Gwich’in with whom we have worked. The rise of log cabins as a dominant housing type can be located historically in the cultural exchanges that
Book Chapter
A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the Extinguishment of the Innu
While written by a sociologist, this book makes a valuable contribution to anthropology by providing an apt example of the effects of colonial assimilationist policies on Indigenous societies.
Book Review