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- catalog abstract ""Icelanders have always been keenly aware of the cultural importance of language and the social power of texts, language and literature have been the touchstones of Icelandic identity from the medieval Commonwealth to the modern nation-state. In this masterful and innovative study by an anthropologist Gisli Palsson, the preoccupation of Icelanders with language and texts serves not only as a highly productive point of departure for the anthropological exploration of Icelandic history, society and culture, but also as a frame of reference for a trenchant critique of textual ideologies and practices in anthropology itself. The range of Textual Life of Savants - from the Sturlunga Saga to The Sexual Life of Savages, nio to novels, orientalism to the dative case - is truly remarkable." "The work transcends disciplinary boundaries; it will be welcomed not only by students of Iceland, but by social linguistic anthropologists, social historians and literary scholars alike."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Ethnography, Iceland, and the linguistic turn".
- catalog contributor b8397844.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""Icelanders have always been keenly aware of the cultural importance of language and the social power of texts, language and literature have been the touchstones of Icelandic identity from the medieval Commonwealth to the modern nation-state. In this masterful and innovative study by an anthropologist Gisli Palsson, the preoccupation of Icelanders with language and texts serves not only as a highly productive point of departure for the anthropological exploration of Icelandic history, society and culture, but also as a frame of reference for a trenchant critique of textual ideologies and practices in anthropology itself. The range of Textual Life of Savants - from the Sturlunga Saga to The Sexual Life of Savages, nio to novels, orientalism to the dative case - is truly remarkable." "The work transcends disciplinary boundaries; it will be welcomed not only by students of Iceland, but by social linguistic anthropologists, social historians and literary scholars alike."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-200) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 210 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "371865721X (bound)".
- catalog identifier "3718657228 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 18".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chur, Switzerland ; U.S. : Harwood Academic Publishers,".
- catalog spatial "Iceland.".
- catalog subject "Anthropological linguistics Iceland.".
- catalog subject "P302.15.I2 P35 1999".
- catalog subject "Sociolinguistics Iceland.".
- catalog title "Ethnography, Iceland, and the linguistic turn".
- catalog title "The textual life of savants : ethnography, Iceland, and the linguistic turn / Gísli Pálsson.".
- catalog type "text".