LEADER 03614nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910827255103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-177-0 035 $a(CKB)111004365706742 035 $a(EBL)836707 035 $a(OCoLC)44964719 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176538 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201745 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176538 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10207369 035 $a(PQKB)10157332 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC836707 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18367 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL836707 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10478386 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004365706742 100 $a20140717d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aImages of contemporary Iceland $eeveryday lives and global contexts /$fedited by Gisli Palsson and E. Paul Durrenberger 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d1996 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 274 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-58729-354-4 311 0 $a0-87745-528-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-265) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a10. Literacy Identity and Literacy Practice 11. The Wandering Semioticians: Tourism and the Image of Modern Iceland; Contributors; References; Index 330 $aIceland 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 Contemporary Iceland challenge this notion of the cultural and historical island with reference to ethnography and theory, emphasizing instead the flow of cultural constructs in a global world. Focusing on Iceland's shifting, continually manufactured present, not its stereotypical past, the contributors in this spirited volume look at the changing images of Iceland as well as at the forces critical for this change: the chaotic flow of images and identities in the global context, cultural constructions of gender and landscape, the politics of custom and history, and the plurality of viewpoints. In these essays we hear the multiple voices of age, gender, class, and locale as they move through the landscapes of domestic violence, environmentalists, nationalists, tourists, fish-processing plants, presidential politics, and electronic media. 606 $aEthnology$zIceland 607 $aIceland$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a306/.094912 701 $aGisli Palsson$f1949-$0885294 701 $aDurrenberger$b E. Paul$f1943-$0142136 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827255103321 996 $aImages of contemporary Iceland$94126810 997 $aUNINA