The Textual Life of Savants : Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Anthropology and History
ISBN-10
3718657228
ISBN-13
9783718657223
Publisher
Harwood-Academic Publishers
Imprint
Harwood-Academic Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 26th, 1995
Print length
222 Pages
Weight
385 grams
Product Classification:
linguisticsEuropean historyCultural studiesAnthropology
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An anthropological exploration of Icelandic history, society and culture as the importance of language and texts ranging from the medieval Commonwealth to the modern nation-state is investigated.
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.
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