29. August 2013 16:23
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
The volume representing some of the work of the HHH project (Home, Hearth, and Household in the Circumpolar North) of the ESF EUROCORES programme BOREAS (Histories from the North – environments, movements, narratives) that ran from 2006 until 2009 was published in August 2013.
‘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. Based on years of in-depth, international research, this book presents and analyses how the peoples of the circumpolar North envision their dwelling places using local idioms of life appropriate to the region. This book sets a new standard for interdisciplinary work within the humanities and social sciences and includes the work of anthropologists, museum curators, archaeologists, and demographers.’
