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  • BEYOND BOUNDARIES
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    BEYOND BOUNDARIES
    GISLI PALSSON
    Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator's enterprise. Over the last few years the human social and ecological habitat has seen spectacular developments. Modern humans inhabit a 'global village' in a very genuine sense. What lessons may be learned from these developments for a...

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  • THE TEXTUAL LIFE OF SAVANTS
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    THE TEXTUAL LIFE OF SAVANTS
    GISLI PÁLSSON
    First Published in 1995. This book focuses on the role and significance of texts and textualism for anthropology and ethnography and, more specifically, the understanding of particular aspects of Icelandic society and history. The discussion is centred on a range of issues; moving between general social theory and ethnographic details, the immediate present and the distant past...

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  • NATURE AND SOCIETY
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    NATURE AND SOCIETY
    DESCOLA, PHILIPPE / PALSSON, GISLI
    The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, ...

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  • THE MAN WHO STOLE HIMSELF
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    THE MAN WHO STOLE HIMSELF
    GÍSLI PÁLSSON
    The life story of Hans Jonathan, Iceland's first Black citizen.  The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free Black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable and compelling, t...

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  • IMAGES OF CONTEMPORARY ICELAND
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    IMAGES OF CONTEMPORARY ICELAND
    GISLI PALSSON AND E. PAUL DURRENBERGER (EDITORS)
    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 vie...

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