Images of Contemporary Iceland

Everyday Lives and Global Contexts

Gisli Palsson, E. Paul Durrenberger, Gisli Palsson, E. Paul Durrenberger

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Year: 1996
• ISBN:
  9781587291777
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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. Insider and outsider viewpoints on such topics as the Icelandic women's movement, the transformation of the fishing industry, the idea of mystical power in modern Iceland, and archaeological research in Iceland merge to form an international, comparative discourse.

Individually and collectively, by bringing the insights of anthropology to bear on Iceland, the native and foreign authors of this volume carry Iceland into the realm of modern anthropology, advancing our understanding of the island's people and the practice of anthropology.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• Part I. Contested Images of Nature
• Part II. Nation and Gender
• Part III. Nature and Nation
• Contributors
• References
• Index