Casas, cabañas y carpas: las viviendas de los Innu de Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canadá.

Since their forced sedentarization during the fifties, the Innu people of Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canada uses different types of housing.  Those are related to diverse strategies on the use of their territory. This paper identifies and describes different types of accommodations: Euro-Canadian style houses in Sheshatshiu, and cabins and semi-cabins and tents around Labrador’s roads and outposts. While Sheshatshiu’s houses are a consequence of an external imposition, the use of cabins, semi-cabins and tents fits a hunter lifestyle. Cabins, semi-cabins and tents are made according to distinct uses of the territory: to escape from the reality of the life in Sheshatshiu, to have access to game, and to symbolically reaffirm Innu’s identity.

Palabras Claves
Innu people
housing
territorial use
Labrador.
Autor
Carolina Tytelman. Doctorando, Departamento de Antropología, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Autor
Damián Castro. Doctorando, Departamento de Antropología, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Recibido
Aceptado
Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual - número 16 - Santiago, diciembre 2010 - 164/184 pp.- ISSN 0718-876x. Rev. chil. antropol. vis.