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Life is currently one of the most active zones of politics and economic production, as biological material is increasingly the subject of engineering, banking, reproduction, and exchange. These developments represent some of the most challenging issues facing humanity in the twenty-first century and call for new forms of engagement - and new anthropologies of life. Reflecting upon the changing human condition, Palsson addresses various conflated zones of life at particular times and scales, from the genome to the human body and the global environment. Using a 'biosocial' perspective, he argues, will help us to capture the hybrid nature of life, enhancing our sensitivity to differences and similarities in hierarchies, the reproduction of bio-objects and the exchange between humans, other species, and the environment. Engaging with topical issues on the public agenda, from personal genomics to human-animal relations to the global environment, the book sets out a compelling case for meaningful change.

Physical anthropology --- Sociobiology --- Life sciences --- Anthropology, Physical --- Biological Phenomena --- Culture. --- #SBIB:316.21H42 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Biologic Phenomena --- Biological Phenomenon --- Biological Process --- Phenomena, Biological --- Biological Processes --- Phenomena, Biologic --- Phenomenon, Biological --- Process, Biological --- Processes, Biological --- Physical Anthropology --- Beliefs --- Cultural Background --- Cultural Relativism --- Customs --- Background, Cultural --- Backgrounds, Cultural --- Belief --- Cultural Backgrounds --- Cultural Relativisms --- Cultures --- Relativism, Cultural --- Relativisms, Cultural --- Biological Evolution --- Genetics, Behavioral --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Biologism --- Human biology --- Human evolution --- Psychology, Comparative --- Social evolution --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Theoretische sociologie: sociobiologie --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Social aspects --- Culture --- Physical anthropology. --- Sociobiology. --- Life sciences.

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Iceland tends to present an image of a homogeneous island population with a long and well-recorded history - an apparently ideal subject for anthropologists looking for neat boundaries, a self-contained culture, and a natural laboratory. Vigorously and refreshingly, the eleven essays in Images of Contemporary Iceland challenge this notion of the cultural and historical island with reference to ethnography and theory, emphasizing instead the flow of cultural constructs in a global world. Focusing on Iceland's shifting, continually manufactured present, not its stereotypical past, the contributors in this spirited volume look at the changing images of Iceland as well as at the forces critical for this change: the chaotic flow of images and identities in the global context, cultural constructions of gender and landscape, the politics of custom and history, and the plurality of viewpoints. In these essays we hear the multiple voices of age, gender, class, and locale as they move through the landscapes of domestic violence, environmentalists, nationalists, tourists, fish-processing plants, presidential politics, and electronic media.

Ethnology --- Iceland --- Aisland --- Aisland ka Fasojamana --- Aisurando --- Cynewīse Īslandes --- Eisland --- Gweriniaeth Gwlad yr Iâ --- Gwlad yr Iâ --- Ísland --- Islanda --- Islande --- Islandi --- Islandia --- Islandii︠a︡ --- İslandiya --- Islandska --- Islandya --- Islandyi︠a︡ --- Islėnd --- Iylanda --- Lýðveldið Ísland --- Peng-tē --- Peng-tē Kiōng-hô-kok --- Republic of Iceland --- Rèpublica d'Islande --- Republica Islanda --- Republiek van Ysland --- Republik Island --- Republika Islandii︠a︡ --- Rėspublika Islandyi︠a︡ --- Tin Bikéyah --- Tin Kéyah --- Ysland --- Рэспубліка Ісландыя --- Република Исландия --- Исланд --- Исланди --- Исландия --- Ислэнд --- Ісландыя --- アイスランド --- Social life and customs.

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson has long been known for his groundbreaking work as an anthropologist and expert on Arctic peoples. His three expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in the early 1900s, as well as his expertise in northern anthropology, helped create his public image as an heroic, Hemingway-esque figure in the annals of twentieth-century exploration. But the emotional and private life of Stefansson the man have remained hidden, until now. New evidence of this other life has recently been discovered: a collection of love letters between Stefansson and his fiance Orpha Cecil Smith were found in a New Hampshire flea market; Stefansson's field diaries have revealed elegant essays and insightful commentary on Inupiat society; baptismal records have revealed that Stefansson had a son, Alex, with his informant and guide, Fanny Pannigabluk; and through Web searches and a private detective, Palsson found and conducted interviews with the descendents of both Cecil Smith and Alex Stefansson. Travelling Passions sheds new light on Stefanssonís life and work, focussing on the tension between his private life and the theories that brought his name to the halls of fame. Palsson draws a clear, vivid, and in many ways unexpected picture of the mythical figure of Stefansson.

Explorers --- Anthropologists --- Scientists --- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, --- Stef, --- Vilhjálmur Stefánsson, --- Stephenson, William, --- Stephenson, Vilhjalmur, --- Stephenson, Villi, --- Stefansson, Villi, --- Relations with women. --- Canada, Northern --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Arctic regions --- Discovery and exploration.

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