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    The Last of Its Kind

    Gisli Palsson

    Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Plsson's own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the…

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    The Human Age: How we caused the climate crisis

    Prof Gisli Palsson

    In 2019, a group of scientists formally declared an end to the Holocene and the beginning of a new epoch - the Anthropocene - an era where human beings are…

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    The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn

    Gisli Palsson

    First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse

    Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator’s enterprise. Over the last few years the human social…

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    Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse

    Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator’s enterprise. Over the last few years the human social…

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    The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn

    Gisli Palsson

    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.

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    The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn

    Gisli Palsson

    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.

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    Anthropology and the New Genetics

    Gisli Palsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavik)

    Anthropologists argue that the growth of ‘new genetics’ has had far-reaching implications for human self-understanding, social relations and the development of biomedicine. Exploring a variety of issues including the widely-discussed…

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    Anthropology and the New Genetics

    Gisli Palsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavik)

    Anthropologists argue that the growth of ‘new genetics’ has had far-reaching implications for human self-understanding, social relations and the development of biomedicine. Exploring a variety of issues including the widely-discussed…

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    Nature, Culture, and Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Life

    Gisli Palsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavik)

    Reflecting upon the changing human condition, Palsson addresses various conflated zones of life at particular times and scales. Engaging with topical issues on the public agenda, from personal genomics to…

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    The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan

    Gisli Palsson,Gaisli

    The island nation of Iceland is known for many things-majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood-but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a…

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    Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives

    The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives and emphasize the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism.

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    Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives

    The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives and emphasize the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism.

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    Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology

    Featuring contributions from leading anthropologists, this volume demonstrates how anthropology can move forward in tandem with discoveries in the biological sciences, reaching beyond the dualisms of nature and society and…

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    Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?

    Margaret Lock,Gisli Palsson

    Following centuries of debate about nature and nurture the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.

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    Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?

    Margaret Lock,Gisli Palsson

    Following centuries of debate about nature and nurture the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.

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