Images of contemporary Iceland : everyday lives and global contexts /

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Iceland tends to present an image of a homogeneous island population with a long and well-recorded history - an apparently ideal subject for anthropologists looking for neat boundaries, a self-contained culture, and a natural laboratory. Vigorously and refreshingly, the eleven essays in Images of Co...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Gísli Pálsson, 1949- (Editor), Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Iceland.
Ethnologie > Islande.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Ethnology
Manners and customs
Sociale structuur.
Dagelijks leven.
Iceland > Social life and customs.
Islande > Mœurs et coutumes.
Iceland
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contested Images of Nature
  • Whale-siting: spatiality in Icelandic nationalism / Anne Brydon
  • A sea of images: fishers, whalers, and environmentalists / Niels Einarsson
  • The politics of production: enclosure, equity, and efficiency / Gisli Palsson and Agnar Helgason
  • Nation and gender
  • Housework and wage work: gender in Icelandic fishing communities / Unnur Dis Skaptadottir
  • The mountain woman and the presidency / Inga Dora Bjornsdottir
  • Motherhood, patriarchy, and the nation: domestic violence in Iceland / Julie E. Gurdin
  • Nature and nation
  • Premodern and modern constructions of population regimes / Daniel E. Vasey
  • Every Icelander a special case / E. Paul Durrenberger
  • Literacy identity and literacy practice / Beverly A. Sizemore and Christopher H. Walker
  • The wandering semioticians: tourism and the image of modern Iceland / Magnus Einarsson.

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