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1 online resource (vii, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index |
| Notes |
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 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Ethnology -- Iceland.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Ethnology
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Manners and customs
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Sociale structuur.
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Dagelijks leven.
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| SUBJECT |
Iceland -- Social life and customs
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Iceland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gísli Pálsson, 1949- editor.
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Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- editor
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| ISBN |
1587291770 |
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9781587291777 |
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