03063nam 2200577Ia 450 991045641180332120200520144314.01-58729-177-0(CKB)111004365706742(EBL)836707(OCoLC)44964719(SSID)ssj0000176538(PQKBManifestationID)11201745(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176538(PQKBWorkID)10207369(PQKB)10157332(MiAaPQ)EBC836707(MdBmJHUP)muse18367(Au-PeEL)EBL836707(CaPaEBR)ebr10478386(EXLCZ)9911100436570674220140717d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImages of contemporary Iceland[electronic resource] everyday lives and global contexts /edited by Gísli Pálsson and E. Paul DurrenbergerIowa City University of Iowa Press19961 online resource (286 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-354-4 0-87745-528-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-265) and index.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 Case10. Literacy Identity and Literacy Practice11. The Wandering Semioticians: Tourism and the Image of Modern Iceland; Contributors; References; IndexThe 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 archaeological research in Iceland merge to fEthnologyIcelandIcelandSocial life and customsElectronic books.Ethnology306/.094912Gísli Pálsson1949-885294Durrenberger E. Paul1943-142136MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456411803321Images of contemporary Iceland2046039UNINA