Anthropology of Iceland

Anthropological research, news, events & titbits from Iceland 🇮🇸 Be sure to check out the Twitter lists above for additional content

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Iceland:
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"Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage" by Gottskálk Jensson in @Religions_MDPI
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Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, @uni_copenhagen
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https://t.co/hYTcBxCDe4

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

6 ways to divide #Iceland😂(from @reddit)

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Iceland:
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"Referendums as resistance: international
pressures and nationalist recoil in Iceland" by Oddný Helgadóttir and Jón Gunnar Ólafsson in Journal of European Public Policy
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@CBScph @uni_iceland @tandfonline
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https://t.co/i0aI6qrpY5

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on Icelandic #Anthropology:
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"Coinless exchange and foreign merchants in medieval #Iceland (AD 900-1600)" by Mehler and Gardiner
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@uni_tue @unilincoln
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https://t.co/dKDy873dm9

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

3/3 'Violence & Risk in Medieval #Iceland lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along 3 principal axes-power, signification & risk' https://t.co/t6WBYlFUrj

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

1/3 'Violence & Risk in Medieval #Iceland explores a place & time notorious for its rampant violence. Iceland's famous #sagas hold troves of circumstantial data, suited for past-tense #ethnography, yet demand the reader come up with subtle & innovative...' https://t.co/t6WBYlFUrj

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

2/3 '...methodologies for recovering histories from their stories. The sagas throw into sharp relief the kinds of analytic insights we obtain through cultural interpretation, offering lessons that apply to other epochs too.' https://t.co/t6WBYlFUrj @OUPHistory

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Icelandic #Anthropology:
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"Household material culture in 19th-century
Iceland: Contextualising change in the
archaeological record" by Ágústa Edwald Maxwell
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@uni_iceland @SPMA
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https://t.co/AnqoKbulDV

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Icelandic #Anthropology:
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"Economic #Crisis, Lived Experiences and Temporal Reasoning Among #Polish Migrants in Iceland" by Marek Pawlak
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@JagiellonskiUni Journal of International Migration and Integration
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https://t.co/PyhtHqdL5r

[Gisli Palsson @GisliPalsson]

My book on the fate of the Great Auk has been nominated for the 2020 Icelandic Literature Award. There was no ceremony, apart from the announcement on TV, but I have received beautiful roses and nice cards. I am thrilled. @ExtinctionNet @Aukward_Jess

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Icelandic #Anthropology:
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"A funeral for a #glacier: Mourning the more-than-human on the edges of modernity" by Arnar Árnason and Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson
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@aberdeenuni @uni_iceland @ThanatosJournal

https://t.co/aJpOJsbqeF

[Smári McCarthy @smarimc]

Flew out to check the volcano earlier. It's... really difficult to describe the feeling.

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Iceland:
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"Between exploration and tourism: Carl Irminger’s Iceland travel diary 1826" by Ebba Lisberg Jensen & Ole Lisberg Jensen, in the journal Polar Record

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https://t.co/CLXKUpSSSj

[Kristina Háfoss @KristinaHafoss]

At the roundabout under the Atlantic Ocean in the new 11 km sub-sea tunnel in the Faroe Islands tonight.

Art and engineering combined beautifully together.

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Iceland:
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"Governance & Degrowth: Lessons from the 2008 Financial #Crisis in #Latvia & Iceland" by Åsa Nyblom, Karolina Isaksson, Mark Sanctuary, Aurore Fransolet & Peter Stigson
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@Sus_MDPI https://t.co/hqTewBLQjL

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Iceland:
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"National #sport success and the emergent social atmosphere: The case of Iceland" by Vidar Halldorsson
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@Haskoli_Islands @SAGEJournals @VidarHalldrsson
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https://t.co/8wShhnli5I

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Iceland:
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"It’s a small, small, small world: The #Icesave dispute and global orders of difference" by Jess Bier
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@erasmusuni @SAGEJournals
https://t.co/h0GP5awxHM

[Andri Snær Magnason @AndriMagnason]

Grandfathers photos from the first spring trip of The Icelandic Glacial Research Society in 1953. The same path was taken for 66 years to access Vatnajökull. In 2019 it was impassable because of rapid melting and wet sands. #ontimeandwater

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Iceland:
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“Where Is the New #Constitution?” Public #Protest and
#CommunityBuilding in Post–Economic Collapse Iceland by Timothy Heffernan
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@THeffernan_ @UNSWArts @BerghahnAnthro
https://t.co/VEnKwSgUOF

[Anthropology of Iceland @Mannfraedi]

New articles on #Iceland:
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"An alternative world: A perspective from the North on racism and migration" by Kristín Loftsdóttir
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@Haskoli_Islands @Race_Class @IRR_News
https://t.co/7W0dP0G1jh