ABSTRACT
The Chukchis are one of the indigenous peoples of the circumpolar zone. This chapter focuses exclusively on reindeer herding Chukchis. This chapter explores how Chukchi reindeer herders perceive and actively appropriate the tundra landscape through acts of dwelling'. The chapter tries to show that mobility, relation to the landscape, kinship, the perpetuation of reindeer herding and rituals must be approached through practices and representations linked to the Chukchi nomadic housing and its hearth. Then it examines how the iaranga forms a microcosm symbolically connected and addresses the issue of movements in the tundra'. The chapter approaches relations to the landscape among Chukchi reindeer herders through the way they dwell in it, putting the iaranga, the nomadic housing and its hearth where women play a central role at the core of multiple symbolic connections. The iaranga, a predominantly female space, is simultaneously a herding and a kinship unit, an ethno-territorial affiliation, a ritual space and a metaphor of the reindeer.
