Icelanders [electronic resource] : EQ01.

These 22 documents are about the inhabitants of Iceland. The time span ranges from about the middle of the nineteenth century to the late twentieth, with a particular focus on the period of the l940s to the 1980s. Most of the works are widely diversified in subject coverage, although there is emphas...

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Other Authors: Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-, Gísli Pálsson, 1949-, Inga Dóra Björnsdóttir, 1952-, Amorosi, Thomas, Brydon, Anne, Byock, Jesse L., Finnur Magnússon, Gurdin, Julie Ellen, Haraldur Ólafsson, 1904-, Magnús Einarsson, Níels Einarsson, Rich, George W., Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir, Sizemore, Beverly Anne, Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, Vasey, Daniel E., Wieland, Darryl
Format: Electronic Continuing Resource
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2004-
Series:EHRAF world cultures. Europe.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contributions to the zooarchaeology of Iceland / Thomas Amorosi
  • Whale sitting / Anne Brydon
  • History and the sagas / Jesse L. Byock
  • Cultural summary, Icelanders / E. Paul Durrenberger and John Beierle
  • Every Icelander a special case / E. Paul Durrenberger
  • Forms of production and fishing expertise / E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson
  • Work and identity of the poor / Magnússon Finnur
  • Motherhood, patriarchy, and the nation / Julie E. Gurdin
  • Coastal economies, cultural accounts ; Language and society / Gísli Pálsson
  • Politics of production / Gísli Pálsson and Agnar Helgason
  • Hunter and the animal / Haraldur Ólafsson
  • Public view and private voices ; Mountain woman and the presidency / Inga Dóra Björnsdóttir
  • Wandering semioticians / Magnús Einarsson
  • Sea of images / Níels Einarsson
  • Problems and prospects in the study of Icelandic kinship / George W. Rich
  • Outside, muted, and different / Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir
  • Literacy identity and literacy practice / Beverly A. Sizemore and Christopher H. Walker
  • Housework and wage work / Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir
  • Premodern and modern constructions of population regimes / Daniel E. Vasey
  • Idea of mystical power in modern Iceland / Darryl Wieland.