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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456411803321

Titolo

Images of contemporary Iceland [[electronic resource] ] : everyday lives and global contexts / / edited by Gísli Pálsson and E. Paul Durrenberger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1996

ISBN

1-58729-177-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Gísli Pálsson <1949->

DurrenbergerE. Paul <1943->

Disciplina

306/.094912

Soggetti

Ethnology - Iceland

Electronic books.

Iceland Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Contested Images of Nature; 2. Whale-Siting: Spatiality in Icelandic Nationalism; 3. A Sea of Images: Fishers, Whalers, and Environmentalists; 4. The Politics of Production: Enclosure, Equity, and Efficiency; Part II. Nation and Gender; 5. Housework and Wage Work: Gender in Icelandic Fishing Communities; 6. The Mountain Woman and the Presidency; 7. Motherhood, Patriarchy, and the Nation: Domestic Violence in Iceland; Part III. Nature and Nation; 8. Premodern and Modern Constructions of Population Regimes; 9. Every Icelander a Special Case

10. Literacy Identity and Literacy Practice11. The Wandering Semioticians: Tourism and the Image of Modern Iceland; Contributors; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Anthropology of Iceland presents the first perspectives  on Icelandic anthropology from both Icelandic and foreign  anthropologists. The thirteen essays in this volume are divided into  four themes: ideology and action; kinship and gender; culture, class,  and ethnicity; and the Commonwealth period of circa 930 to 1220, which  saw the flowering of sagas. Insider and outsider viewpoints on such  topics as the Icelandic women's movement, the transformation of the  fishing industry, the idea of mystical power in modern Iceland, and  



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