| Description |
1 online resource (82 p.) |
| Series |
Ocean and Island Studies |
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Ocean and Island Studies
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: Palm-of-the-Hand Ethnography and Other Related Considerations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Arriving: An Introduction to Island Anthropology -- 2 Wave Glossary: To and from Yap -- 3 On Becoming an Ethnographic Ghost in the Faroe Islands -- 4 Newfoundland: A Place Apart -- 5 Iceland I: New Old Dreamworlds -- 6 Iceland II: Come-from-Away -- 7 Phantom Islands: Shorelines without Islands -- 8 Hauntological Islands -- 9 A Conclusion by Means of Describing Certain Lessons That Islands Have Taught Me |
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Afterword: The Benefits of Thinking with Anthropology and Islands -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Islands
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000824100 |
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1000824101 |
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