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

• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.094912
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Iceland
• Soggetto geografico: Iceland Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Gísli Pálsson <1949-> DurrenbergerE. Paul <1943->
• 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 archaeological research in Iceland merge to f
• Titolo autorizzato: Images of contemporary Iceland
• ISBN: 1-58729-177-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456411803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II