Images of contemporary Iceland : everyday lives and global contexts /

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Imprint:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1996.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 274 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Ethnology -- Iceland. Ethnology. Manners and customs. Iceland -- Social life and customs. Iceland. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11109139

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Other authors / contributors:	Gísli Pálsson, 1949- editor. Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- editor.
ISBN:	1587291770 9781587291777 9781587293542 1587293544 0877455287 9780877455288
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Images of contemporary Iceland. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1996 0877455287

Table of 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.

Images of contemporary Iceland : everyday lives and global contexts /

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