Textual Life of Savants
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Animal Kingdom
anthropological theory
Author_Gisli Palsson
Big Man
Boat Owners
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commonwealth
Contemporary Sagas
cultural translation studies
Current Resource Economics
Dative Substitution
Early Icelanders
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ethnography of Icelandic society
Eyrbyggja Saga
family
Family Sagas
hastrup
icelandic
Icelandic Commonwealth
Icelandic Fishing
Ideal Speech Situation
kirsten
Laxdcela Saga
medieval Nordic texts
Mountain Woman
pragmatism in social science
qualitative fieldwork methods
Runic Inscriptions
saga
Saga Accounts
Saga Scholars
Saga Studies
Saga Writers
sagas
sea
sturlunga
Sturlunga Saga
symbolic capital analysis
TAC
Vice Versa
West Germany
Witchcraft Accusations
writers
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138167186
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 02 Feb 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 1995. This book focuses on the role and significance of texts and textualism for anthropology and ethnography and, more specifically, the understanding of particular aspects of Icelandic society and history. The discussion is centred on a range of issues; moving between general social theory and ethnographic details, the immediate present and the distant past, language and production, fieldwork and the act of writing, texts (sagas, novels, and ethnographies) and real life. In each case, however, it draws attention to what may be called a pragmatist approach, a concern with action and agency as they constitute, and are constituted by, social life. Such an approach, I hold, is an important and timely remedy to current textualism, the trendy theoretical tradition often described as the linguistic turn.
