E. Paul Durrenberger - The Anthropology of Iceland
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Ethnology--Iceland, Iceland--Social life and customs.
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1995
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DL326.A65 1995eb
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949.1/2
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Ethnology--Iceland, Iceland--Social life and customs.
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The Anthropology of Iceland
Edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gsli Plsson
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1989 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Typesetting by G&S Typesetters, Austin, Texas Printing and binding by Thomson-Shore, Dexter, Michigan
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Anthropology of Iceland / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gsli Plsson. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-87745-234-2 1. IcelandSocial life and customs. 2. EthnologyIceland. I. Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943 . II. Plsson, Gsli, 1949 . DL326.A65 1989 89-4657 949.1'2dc19CIP
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Iceland
Gsli Plsson and E. Paul Durrenberger
ix
I. Ideology and Action
Forms of Production and Fishing Expertise
E. Paul Durrenberger and Gsli Plsson
3
The Idea of Mystical Power in Modern Iceland
Darryl Wieland
19
The Hunter and the Animal
Haraldur lafsson
39
II. Kinship and Gender
Problems and Prospects in the Study of Icelandic Kinship
George W. Rich
53
Outside, Muted, and Different: Icelandic Women's Movements and Their Notions of Authority and Cultural Separateness
Sigrur Dna Kristmundsdttir
80
Public View and Private Voices
Inga Dra Bjrnsdttir
98
III. Culture, Class, and Ethnicity
Language and Society: The Ethnolinguistics of Icelanders
Gsli Plsson
121
Work and the Identity of the Poor: Work Load, Work Discipline, and Self-Respect
Finnur Magnsson
140
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Adaptation to an Ethnic Structure: The Urban Icelandic-Canadians of Winnipeg
John S. Matthiasson
157
IV. The Commonwealth Period
Regional Archaeological Research in Iceland: Potentials and Possibilities
Kevin P. Smith and Jeffrey R. Parsons
179
Contributions to the Zooarchaeology of Iceland: Some Preliminary Notes
Thomas Amorosi
203
Anthropological Perspectives on the Commonwealth Period
E. Paul Durrenberger
228
Notes on Contributors
247
Index
251
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PREFACE
The articles in this book were written for a conference on the anthropology of Iceland, held in Iowa City, Iowa, in May 1987. Plans for the conference were developed two years earlier when we were both lecturing at the University of Iceland in Reykjavk. We drew up a list of anthropologists who had published on Icelandic issues or had done fieldwork in Iceland. Later, new names were added to the list at the suggestion of those originally contacted. The responses to our invitations were most encouraging. In order to facilitate an atmosphere of detachment, we decided that the conference should take place outside Iceland, assuming that analyses and discussions of results and points of view would somehow be more authentic if carried out away from the reality of the field.
One of the essays in this volume, that of Wieland, was presented in absentia. Another contributor, Rich, was unable to attend. Some of the essays presented at the conference were already committed to publication elsewhere and are not included in the present volume.
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