Images of contemporary Iceland: everyday lives and global contexts

The Anthropology of Iceland presents the first perspectives on Icelandic anthropology from both Icelandic and foreign anthropologists.;Contested Images of Nature -- Whale-Siting: Spatiality in Icelandic Nationalism / Anne Brydon -- A Sea of Images: Fishers, Whalers, and Environmentalists / Niels Einarsson -- The Politics of Production: Enclosure, Equity, and Efficiency / Gisli Palsson and Agnar Helgason -- Nation and Gender -- Housework and Wage Work: Gender in Icelandic Fishing Communities / Unnur Dis Skaptadottir -- The Mountain Woman and the Presidency / Inga Dora Bjornsdottir -- Motherhood, Patriarchy, and the Nation: Domestic Violence in Iceland / Julie E. Gurdin -- Nature and Nation -- Premodern and Modern Constructions of Population Regimes / Daniel E. Vasey -- Every Icelander a Special Case / E. Paul Durrenberger -- Literacy Identity and Literacy Practice / Beverly A. Sizemore and Christopher H. Walker -- The Wandering Semioticians: Tourism and the Image of Modern Iceland / Magnus Einarsson.