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title	:	Images of Contemporary Iceland : Everyday Lives and Global Contexts
author	:	Gsli Plsson
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877455287
print isbn13	:	9780877455288
ebook isbn13	:	9781587291777
language	:	English
subject	Ethnology--Iceland, Iceland--Social life and customs.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	DL331.I43 1996eb
ddc	:	306/.094912
subject	:	Ethnology--Iceland, Iceland--Social life and customs.

Page iii Images of Contemporary Iceland Everyday Lives and Global Contexts Edited by Gsli Plsson and E. Paul Durrenberger University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1996 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Design by Omega Clay No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Images of contemporary Iceland: everyday lives and global contexts / edited by Gsli Plsson and E. Paul Durrenberger. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-528-7 (alk. paper) 1. EthnographyIceland. 2. IcelandSocial life and customs. I. Gsli Plsson, 1949 . II. Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943 . DL331.I43 1996 306'.094912dc20 95-35078 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 96 C 5 4 3 2 1

Page v CONTENTS Preface vii 1 Introduction E. Paul Durrenberger and Gsli Plsson 1 Part I. Contested Images of Nature 2 Whale-Siting: Spatiality in Icelandic Nationalism Anne Brydon 25 3 A Sea of Images: Fishers, Whalers, and Environmentalists Nels Einarsson 46 4 The Politics of Production: Enclosure, Equity, and Efficiency Gsli Plsson and Agnar Helgason 60 Part II. Nation and Gender 5 Housework and Wage Work: Gender in Icelandic Fishing Communities Unnur Ds Skaptadttir 87

Page vi 6 The Mountain Woman and the Presidency Inga Dra Bjrnsdttir 106 7 Motherhood, Patriarchy, and the Nation: Domestic Violence in Iceland Julie E. Gurdin 126 Part III. Nature and Nation 8 Premodern and Modern Constructions of Population Regimes Daniel E. Vasey 149 9 Every Icelander a Special Case E. Paul Durrenberger 171 10 Literacy Identity and Literacy Practice Beverly A. Sizemore and Christopher H. Walker 191 11 The Wandering Semioticians: Tourism and the Image of Modern Iceland Magns Einarsson 215 Contributors 237 References 241 Index 267

Page vii PREFACE In 1987 we organized a workshop to take stock of anthropological research on Iceland. We collected and published papers from that meeting in The Anthropology of Iceland (University of Iowa Press, 1989). This volume proved to be a success; in the next five years anthropological work on Iceland intensified as people continued various lines of inquiry and there were more people, both Icelanders and non-Icelanders, working in the area. We thought it an opportune time to reassess the state of this work and organized a second workshop held in Iowa City in 1993. This time we defined the subject more narrowly as ethnographic research on modern Iceland. We invited all those who had recently worked in Iceland, and many of them were able to participate in the workshop. Most of the contributions appear in the present volume, but some were committed elsewhere; the papers by Sigrur Dna Kristmundsdttir and Gsli Plsson appeared in Social Anthropology and Man, respectively. During the course of the lively discussions among the two dozen participants, it soon became apparent that a focus on images was

Page viii emerging. This focus reflects a broader trend in anthropology, which we take up in the introduction. Thus, we could see the anthropology of Iceland as grappling with central issues of the discipline in the context and locale of a modern nation. Since the workshop we have worked with the authors to prepare a set of related essays addressed to similar questions about the many different contexts of modern life in Iceland. While most of the essays in this volume are revisions of work first presented at the workshop, others emerged as topics that first arose in the discussions there; the essays by Brydon and Plsson and Helgason were prepared later with this volume in mind.

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