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Inuit housing: a survey of the literature

Inuit housing: a survey of the literature / Inuit housing: a survey of the literature / Thule Inuit

Thule Inuit

Dawson, Peter C. (1995) "Unsympathetic users": an ethnoarchaeological examination of Inuit responses to the changing nature of the built environment, Arctic 48(1): 71-80   summary
    Keywords: architecture and design, gender, prefabricated houses, Thule Inuit, traditional dwellings

Habu, Junko and James M. Savelle (1994) Construction, use, and abandonment of a Thule Whale Bone House, Somerset Island, Arctic Canada, Quarternary Research (Japan), 33(1): 1-18                     summary
    Keywords: archaeology, ceremonial structures, qarigi, Somerset Island, Thule Inuit, traditional dwellings

Patton, A. Katherine and James M. Savelle (2006) The symbolic dimensions of whale bone use in Thule winter dwellings, Études/Inuit/Studies 30(2): 137-161        summary
    Keywords: architecture and design, gender, Inupiat, Nunavut, prehistory, Thule Inuit