Architecture Anchors: The Built Environment of the Thule Inuit

Small-scale societies maintain social cohesion through extended networks dispersed over vast regions. Cultural connections are maintained using multiple interaction strategies, such as material goods trade, information exchange, individual or group mobility, and seasonal aggregations. Despite a long history of cultural change studies (e.g., Curet 1992; Darwent et al. 2013; Dawson 2001; Jordan and O’Neill 2010; Lepofsky et al. 2009; Pauketat and Alt 2005; Prentiss et al. 2018; Pyzel 2013), maintenance of these social networks has received limited study, especially for small-scale societies (but see Lightfoot et al. 1998; Scerri et al. 2017; Temple and Stojanowski 2019). Such lack of attention