Book
Coastal economies, cultural accounts: human ecology and Icelandic discourse
Manchester University Press ; St. Martin's Press [distributor] • Manchester • Published In 1991 • Pages: xviii, 202
By: Gísli Pálsson.
Abstract
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 represented in social discourse, among both indigenous producers and anthropologists' (p. xv). The theoretical background for this analysis will be found in the first three chapters of this work. Chapter 4 shifts the discussion from social theory to ethnography, applying the perspectives outlined above to a study of how the models of medieval Icelanders (ninth to late nineteenth centuries), reflect the constraints and opportunities of peasant household production. Chapers 5 and 6 are accounts of the modern (ca. 1980s) Icelandic fisheries based on fieldwork by the author in Sanderði, in southwest Iceland during 1979 and 1981. The final chapter presents theoretical conclusions summarizing the content of this document.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Scandinavia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Indigenous Person
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field Date
- 1979, 1981
- Coverage Date
- ca. 1900-1980s
- Coverage Place
- Sandgerði, near Keflavík, southwest Iceland
- Notes
- Gísli Pálsson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-191) and index
- LCCN
- 90029067
- LCSH
- Icelanders