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Chargement... A Place Apart: An Anthropological Study of the Icelandic World (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) (édition 1998)par Kirsten Hastrup
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A Place Apart offers a rich and reflective representation of Iceland and Icelanders today. Kirsten Hastrup draws upon extensive first-hand research, but also upon her original theory of what anthropology is and should be, which this book exemplifies. In two previous books she studied theprocesses and patterns which shaped Icelandic society from medieval times to the nineteenth century; now she brings this historical study up to date by drawing out the dominant themes in present-day Icelandic self-understanding. In many ways Icelanders' sustained image of themselves as a singularpeople in the world refracts the actual social reality. The image tends to favour particular interpretations of history as well as particular social groups, as Hastrup shows through analyses of tradition and ideology, landscape and memory, community and honour. She investigates the ways in whicheveryday life is informed by a living tradition and a stress on the historical depth and cultural uniqueness of this place apart. The result is a renewed sense of the texture of the Icelandic world, seen not as a static and prescriptive culture, but rather as a space within which Icelanders aresuspended between modernity and consciousness of the antiquity of Icelandic values, between presentness and pastness. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)949.12History and Geography Europe Other parts Iceland; Faroe Islands Medievalism 1264-1551Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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