Interconnections between Indigenous Women and Traditional Fire Practices in the Far North

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Women within hunter-gatherer societies have had deep interactions with fire through their cultural and gender roles for thousands of years. I aim to explore the intersections among Indigenous women of Dene speakers, fire, and material culture throughout the recent and more distant past. My focus is centered around women’s/girls’ interactions with their environment and specifically fire from both natural and human-made sources. In order to achieve a more holistic perspective, I will apply a four-field anthropological approach that compares data from Indigenous oral histories, Indigenous language dictionaries, material culture from multiple Interior Alaskan archaeological sites, and publications ranging from multiple disciplines. 

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40291.0