TY  - BOOK
AU  - G�isli P�alsson,
AU  - Durrenberger,E.Paul
TI  - Images of contemporary Iceland: everyday lives and global contexts 
SN  - 1587291770
AV  - DL331 .I43 1996eb
U1  - 306/.094912 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Iceland
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Islande
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Sociale structuur
KW  - gtt
KW  - Dagelijks leven
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - M�urs et coutumes
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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