ISBN:
1587291770
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9781587291777
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vii, 274 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Images of contemporary Iceland
DDC:
306/.094912
Keywords:
Ethnology Iceland
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Ethnologie Islande
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Ethnology
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Ethnologie Islande
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Ethnology Iceland
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
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Ethnology
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Manners and customs
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Sociale structuur
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Dagelijks leven
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Iceland Social life and customs
;
Islande Mœurs et coutumes
;
Iceland
;
Iceland Social life and customs
;
Iceland Social life and customs
;
Islande Mœurs et coutumes
;
Iceland
;
Iceland
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Iceland tends to present an image of a homogeneous island population with a long and well-recorded history - an apparently ideal subject for anthropologists looking for neat boundaries, a self-contained culture, and a natural laboratory. Vigorously and refreshingly, the eleven essays in Images of Contemporary Iceland challenge this notion of the cultural and historical island with reference to ethnography and theory, emphasizing instead the flow of cultural constructs in a global world. Focusing on Iceland's shifting, continually manufactured present, not its stereotypical past, the contributors in this spirited volume look at the changing images of Iceland as well as at the forces critical for this change: the chaotic flow of images and identities in the global context, cultural constructions of gender and landscape, the politics of custom and history, and the plurality of viewpoints. In these essays we hear the multiple voices of age, gender, class, and locale as they move through the landscapes of domestic violence, environmentalists, nationalists, tourists, fish-processing plants, presidential politics, and electronic media
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-265) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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