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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821238803321

Autore

Tomasson Richard F. <1928->

Titolo

Iceland : the first new society / / Richard F. Tomasson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1980

ISBN

0-8166-5881-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 247 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations

Disciplina

949.1/2

Soggetti

Iceland Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 The First New Society; Chapter 2 Modern Iceland and Its Making; Chapter 3 The Demography of an Isolated People; Chapter 4 Men, Women, and Kinship; Chapter 5 Literacy and Cultural Life; Chapter 6 The Language; Chapter 7 Religion, Literature, and Alcohol; Chapter 8 Values; Notes; Appendix A: The Interview Schedule; Appendix B: The Interview Sample; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Iceland, as described by Tomasson, has a fascinating, often contradictory culture, writes Seymour Martin Lipset in his forward to this book, the first sociological account in English of modern Icelandic society and the forces that have shaped it.