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Iceland imagined : nature, culture, and storytelling in the North Atlantic /
"Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually becom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
c2011.
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| Colección: | Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: imagining Iceland, narrating the North
- Icelandic landscapes
- Natural histories and national histories
- Nordic by nature
- Classifying and controlling Flora and Fauna in Iceland
- Mastering the world's edges
- Technology, tools, and material culture in the North Atlantic
- Translating and converting
- Language and religion in Greenland
- Reading backward
- Language and the sagas in the Faroe Islands
- Epilogue: whales and men
- Contested scientific ethics and cultural politics in the North Atlantic.