The anthropology of Iceland /

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Imprint:Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1995.
Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 258 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11109923
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Other authors / contributors:Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-
Gísli Pálsson, 1949-
ISBN:1587290553
9781587290558
087745499X
Notes:Papers from a conference held in Iowa City, Iowa, in May 1987.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Anthropology of Iceland. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1995 087745499X
Table of Contents:
  • Forms of production and fishing expertise / E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson
  • Idea of mystical power in modern Iceland / Darryl Wieland
  • Hunter and the animal / Haraldur Ólafsson
  • 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 / Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir
  • Public view and private voices / Inga Dóra Björnsdóttir
  • Language and society : the ethnolinguistics of Icelanders / Gísli Pálsson
  • Work and the identity of the poor : work load, work discipline, and self-respect / Finnur Magnússon
  • 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.