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eHRAF is comprised of thousands of ethnographic sources including monographs, journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts. Use this page to find relevant documents by searching or filtering. Each document in eHRAF also contains a Publication Information page with added metadata including brief abstracts written by HRAF analysts who have subject-indexed the file.
Coastal economies, cultural accountsBook 1991 • Gísli Pálsson
Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
This book attempts to link together the study of human ecological relations and cultural or discursive symbolism, particularly in relation to Icelandic marine fisheries, with emphasis on '…the way in which human environmental interactions are represe...Language and societyessay 1989 • Gísli Pálsson
Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
Icelandic ethnolinguistics, the native perception of language and different ways of speaking, is the primary focus of this paper. Emphasis in the document, however, is not on the language itself, but what Icelandic attitudes to language reveal about ...The name of the witchessay 1991 • Gísli Pálsson
Early Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
The Family Sagas provide numerous accounts of sorcery and withcraft, while such accounts are remarkably absent in the later Sturlunga Sagas. This suggests that accusations of withcraft were important during the earlier years of the Commonwealth Perio...Introductionessay 1992 • Gísli Pálsson
Early Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
The Icelandic sagas have been extensively studied as pieces of text, as literarly and historical documents, and as potentially valuable sources of ethnographic information on early Iceland and medieval Scandinavia. As a source of cultural data, this ...The politics of productionessay 1996 • Gísli Pálsson & Agnar Helgason
Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
This article presents a discussion of changes in the Icelandic fishing industry that the authors associate with the introduction of a new system of resource management. This system is based on a quota system, with a focus on contested notions of equi...Referencesessay 1996 • Gísli Pálsson & Durrenberger, E. Paul
Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
This paper consists of bibliographical citations, some of which are relevant to eHRAF documents 21-29 in this file....Forms of production and fishing expertiseessay 1989 • Durrenberger, E. Paul & Gísli Pálsson
Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
The author's examination of Icelandic notions of fishing success has led them '…to address a number of classical anthropological issues, among them: the relationship between models and reality, the relationship between ideologies and forms of product...