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Title The anthropology of Iceland / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1995

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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
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Subject Ethnology -- Iceland -- Congresses
HISTORY -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Ethnology
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Iceland -- Social life and customs -- Congresses
Subject Iceland
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-
Gísli Pálsson, 1949-
ISBN 1587290553
9781587290558