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The anthropology of Iceland / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and G�isli P�alsson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 258 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587290553
  • 9781587290558
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Anthropology of Iceland.DDC classification:
  • 949.1/2 19
LOC classification:
  • DL326 .A65 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Forms of production and fishing expertise / E. Paul Durrenberger and G�isli P�alsson -- Idea of mystical power in modern Iceland / Darryl Wieland -- Hunter and the animal / Haraldur �Olafsson -- Problems and prospects in the study of icelandic kinship / George W. Rich -- Outside, muted, and different : Icelandic women's movements and their notions of authority and cultural separateness / Sigr�i�ur D�una Kristmundsd�ottir -- Public view and private voices / Inga D�ora Bj�ornsd�ottir -- Language and society : the ethnolinguistics of Icelanders / G�isli P�alsson -- Work and the identity of the poor : work load, work discipline, and self-respect / Finnur Magn�usson -- Adaption to an ethnic structure : the urban Icelandic-Canadians of Winnipeg / John S. Matthiasson -- Regional archaeological research in Iceland : potentials and possibilities / Kevin P. Smith and Jeffrey R. Parsons -- Contributions to the zooarchaeology of Iceland : some preliminary notes / Thomas Amorosi -- Anthropological perspectives on the commonwealth period / E. Paul Durrenberger.
Summary: 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.
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Papers from a conference held in Iowa City, Iowa, in May 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Forms of production and fishing expertise / E. Paul Durrenberger and G�isli P�alsson -- Idea of mystical power in modern Iceland / Darryl Wieland -- Hunter and the animal / Haraldur �Olafsson -- Problems and prospects in the study of icelandic kinship / George W. Rich -- Outside, muted, and different : Icelandic women's movements and their notions of authority and cultural separateness / Sigr�i�ur D�una Kristmundsd�ottir -- Public view and private voices / Inga D�ora Bj�ornsd�ottir -- Language and society : the ethnolinguistics of Icelanders / G�isli P�alsson -- Work and the identity of the poor : work load, work discipline, and self-respect / Finnur Magn�usson -- Adaption to an ethnic structure : the urban Icelandic-Canadians of Winnipeg / John S. Matthiasson -- Regional archaeological research in Iceland : potentials and possibilities / Kevin P. Smith and Jeffrey R. Parsons -- Contributions to the zooarchaeology of Iceland : some preliminary notes / Thomas Amorosi -- Anthropological perspectives on the commonwealth period / E. Paul Durrenberger.

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