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
Subject:	Ethnology -- Iceland -- Congresses. Ethnology. Manners and customs. Iceland -- Social life and customs -- Congresses. Iceland. Conference papers and proceedings. Electronic books.
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. Print version record.
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.

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