Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
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 |
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 |
Notes |
Papers from a conference held in Iowa City, Iowa, in May 1987 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Ethnology -- Iceland -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Ethnology
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Manners and customs
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SUBJECT |
Iceland -- Social life and customs -- Congresses
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Subject |
Iceland
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-
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Gísli Pálsson, 1949-
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ISBN |
1587290553 |
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9781587290558 |
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