Gísli Pálsson

Gisli Pálsson ( * 1949 in the Westman Islands, Iceland ) is an Icelandic writer and university teacher.

Life

Gisli was born in the West Man Islands south of Iceland and grew up there. He is now (2012 ) professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. He is author or co- author of more than a dozen books that deal with ethnological topics and explorers, such as with Vilhjálmur Stefánsson.

Gisli is a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London.

Honors and Awards

  • 2000 Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and athmospheric Science at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.

Writings

  • 2013: Tim Ingold as editor: Biosocial Reckonings. Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology. Cambridge University Press, New York, ISBN 978-1-107025639.
  • 2007: Anthropology and the New Genetics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85572-3.
  • 2005: Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjálmur Stefánsson. translated by Keneva Kunz. University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, ISBN 0-88755-179-3.
  • 2001: Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of V. Stefansson. University Press of New England, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA, ISBN 1-58465-119-9.
  • 1996: Philippe Descola (ed.): Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives. Routledge, London / New York 1996, ISBN 0-415-13215-0.
  • 1995: The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn.
  • 1992 as publisher: From Sagas to Society: Comparative Approaches to Early Iceland. Hisarhk Press, Enfield Lock, Middlesex, ISBN 1-874312028.
  • 1991: Coastal Economies, Cultural Accounts: Human Ecology and Icelandic Discourse. Manchester University Press, Manchester / New York City, ISBN 0-719035430.
  • 1990: as the editor: From Water to World - Making: African Models on Arid Lands. Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (now Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ), Uppsala.
  • 1989: E. Paul Durrenberger with: The Anthropology of Iceland. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, ISBN 0-87745-234-2.
  • 1987: Sjambúð 's cup og sjávor. Svart ó hvítu, Reykjavík 1987.
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