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Images of contemporary Iceland : everyday lives and global contexts / edited by G�isli P�alsson and E. Paul Durrenberger.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 274 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587291770
  • 9781587291777
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Images of contemporary Iceland.DDC classification:
  • 306/.094912 20
LOC classification:
  • DL331 .I43 1996eb
Other classification:
  • 73.40
  • 73.40.
Online resources:
Contents:
Contested Images of Nature -- Whale-siting: spatiality in Icelandic nationalism / Anne Brydon -- A sea of images: fishers, whalers, and environmentalists / Niels Einarsson -- The politics of production: enclosure, equity, and efficiency / Gisli Palsson and Agnar Helgason -- Nation and gender -- Housework and wage work: gender in Icelandic fishing communities / Unnur Dis Skaptadottir -- The mountain woman and the presidency / Inga Dora Bjornsdottir -- Motherhood, patriarchy, and the nation: domestic violence in Iceland / Julie E. Gurdin -- Nature and nation -- Premodern and modern constructions of population regimes / Daniel E. Vasey -- Every Icelander a special case / E. Paul Durrenberger -- Literacy identity and literacy practice / Beverly A. Sizemore and Christopher H. Walker -- The wandering semioticians: tourism and the image of modern Iceland / Magnus Einarsson.
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Summary: Iceland 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index.

Iceland 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.

Contested Images of Nature -- Whale-siting: spatiality in Icelandic nationalism / Anne Brydon -- A sea of images: fishers, whalers, and environmentalists / Niels Einarsson -- The politics of production: enclosure, equity, and efficiency / Gisli Palsson and Agnar Helgason -- Nation and gender -- Housework and wage work: gender in Icelandic fishing communities / Unnur Dis Skaptadottir -- The mountain woman and the presidency / Inga Dora Bjornsdottir -- Motherhood, patriarchy, and the nation: domestic violence in Iceland / Julie E. Gurdin -- Nature and nation -- Premodern and modern constructions of population regimes / Daniel E. Vasey -- Every Icelander a special case / E. Paul Durrenberger -- Literacy identity and literacy practice / Beverly A. Sizemore and Christopher H. Walker -- The wandering semioticians: tourism and the image of modern Iceland / Magnus Einarsson.

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