<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DAWSON, Peter C.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Houses from Heaven: The Transformation of the Traditional Inuit Household Through Euro-Canadian Architecture / &#039;Un toit tombé du ciel&amp;#039</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Saskatoon</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Archaeologists frequently utilize ethnographic analogies in their interpretations of prehistoric households. Rarely, however, are analogies derived from the archaeological record used to interpret contemporary aboriginal households. In the 1950&#039;s, the Canadian Government attempted to assimilate Inuit families into a broader Canadian economic and social reality through the introduction of family allowance, health care, education, and housing programs. The Euro-Canadian prefabricated houses constructed in many arctic communities, for example, were designed around the concept of the nuclear family, which had emerged after the Second World War as a dominant socioeconomic form in southern Canada. When such houses were first introduced into the Canadian Arctic, however, the extended family still functioned as a basic socioeconomic unit of production in Inuit society; a fact that is reflected in the spatial organization of many traditional Inuit dwellings. In this paper, I use archaeological and ethnoarchaeological data to argue that Euro-Canadian house designs and housing programs effectively undermined the solidarity of the traditional Inuit extended family, and fostered the ascendancy of the nuclear family, a household form favored by the Canadian Government for administrative purposes.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>