Images of contemporary Iceland :  everyday lives and global contexts / 
edited by G�isli P�alsson and E. Paul Durrenberger. 
 - Iowa City :  University of Iowa Press,  1996. 
 - 1 online resource (vii, 274 pages) :  illustrations 
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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index. 
<br/><br/> Whale-siting: spatiality in Icelandic nationalism /  A sea of images: fishers, whalers, and environmentalists /  The politics of production: enclosure, equity, and efficiency /  Nation and gender --  Housework and wage work: gender in Icelandic fishing communities /  The mountain woman and the presidency /  Motherhood, patriarchy, and the nation: domestic violence in Iceland /  Nature and nation --  Premodern and modern constructions of population regimes /  Every Icelander a special case /  Literacy identity and literacy practice /  The wandering semioticians: tourism and the image of modern Iceland /  Anne Brydon --  Niels Einarsson --  Gisli Palsson and Agnar Helgason --  Unnur Dis Skaptadottir --  Inga Dora Bjornsdottir --  Julie E. Gurdin --  Daniel E. Vasey --  E. Paul Durrenberger --  Beverly A. Sizemore and Christopher H. Walker --  Magnus Einarsson.  Contested Images of Nature -- 
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<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1587291770 9781587291777 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt20gq6m1  JSTOR 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Iceland.<br/>Ethnologie--Islande.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.<br/>Ethnology.<br/>Manners and customs.<br/>Sociale structuur.<br/>Dagelijks leven.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Iceland--Social life and customs.<br/>Islande--M�urs et coutumes.<br/>Iceland.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DL331  / .I43 1996eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306/.094912