Home, Hearth, and Household in Siberia and Northern Canada

【摘要】美国博伊西州立大学的PI John Ziker是一个大型国际合作项目的美国部分，该项目是在欧洲科学基金会、欧洲核心计划、BOREAS框架下构想的。整个ESF项目由来自6个国家的研究人员合作完成，包括美国、挪威、加拿大、瑞典、芬兰和俄罗斯。这个特别的项目代表了美国国家科学基金会对BOREAS项目的贡献，重点关注俄罗斯西伯利亚泰米尔中部地区和维提姆河、加拿大西北地区Rae-Edzo和华盛顿特区美国印第安人国家博物馆的家庭、灶台和家庭主题。这项合作包括五项研究活动，重点是在这两个地区进行详细的人种学、人口和空间研究。美国项目的目的是将北方的便携式皮肤小屋置于环境中，分析当代和史前住宅的空间使用，以及当代和历史家庭的社会动态。这是一项跨学科的工作，将民族志、历史、民族考古学和土著学术结合在一起，通过对西伯利亚和加拿大两个地区的比较，有可能获得对皮肤小屋的象征、生态和社会角色的新见解。

ABSTRACTARC 0631970This research project, PI John Ziker, Boise State University, is the US portion of a larger international collaboration that was conceived under the European Science Foundation, EUROCORES Programme, BOREAS. The full ESF project is a collaboration of researchers from 6 countries, including the US, Norway, Canada, Sweden, Finland and Russia. This particular project, which represents the US NSF contribution to the BOREAS effort, focuses on the theme of home, hearth and household in the central Taimyr Region and Vitim River in Siberia, Russia, Rae-Edzo, Northwest Territory, Canada, and the National Museum of the American Indians in Washington, DC. The collaboration comprises five research activities focused on detailed ethnographic, demographic, and spatial studies in these two regions. The aim of the US project is to contextualize the vernacular of portable skin lodges in the North, analyze the use of space within contemporary and prehistoric dwellings, and the social dynamics of contemporary and historic households. This is a very interdisciplinary effort, bringing together ethnography, history, ethnoarchaeolgy, and indigenous scholarship with the potential to gain new insight into the symbolic, ecological, and social roles of skin lodge dwellings through a comparison of two regions of Siberia and Canada.