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Gísli Pálsson - Professor Emeritus
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Gísli Pálsson
Íslenska
Professor Emeritus
Professor of Anthropology
Location
Utan H.Í.
Email
gpals [at] hi.is
Unit
Anthropology
Website
https://scholar.google.is/citations?user=5BTSO78AAAAJ&hl=en
Published Work
Gísli Pálsson - published work
Curriculum Vitae
Gísli Pálsson - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9602-0839
Research portal – Gísli Pálsson
Courses 2024 - 2025
MAN561L - Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology
MAN561L - Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology
Published works
2024
THE LAST OF ITS KIND
2023
Anthropologies of extinction
Anthropology Today
Leysinginn: Karabískur þræll gerist íslenskur bóndi
2022
“Vegabréf fuglanna”
Náttúrufræðingurinn
2021
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary Research
Internet Archaeology
Paul T.W. Baxter
Ethnos
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary Research
Internet Archaeology
Ethnography Beyond the Human
Ethnos
Cutting the Network, Knotting the Line
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary Research
Internet Archaeology
2020
Orientations in Anthropology
Introduction
Household words
EPISCOPAL ECONOMICS
Scandinavian Journal of History
Episcopal Economics. Property and power in post-reformation Iceland
Scandinavian Journal of History
Cash for quotas
The importance of friendship in the absence of states, according to the icelandic sagas
Dépister l’ancestralité: Machines et techniques généalogiques dans la reconstruction des histoires de famille
Ethnologie francaiçse
Down to Earth
Episcopal Economics. Property and power in post-reformation Iceland
Scandinavian Journal of History
The Human Age: How We Created the Anthropocene Epoch and Caused the Climate Crisis
Fuglinn sem gat ekki flogið
Episcopal Economics. Property and power in post-reformation Iceland
Scandinavian Journal of History
Preface
Beyond boundaries
2019
Domination, Subsistence, and Interdependence
Human Ecology
Corporate Skin: Biosocial Relations, Tropes, and Institutions in Prosthetics Research and Development
Journal of Material Culture
From Enslavement to Emancipation: Naming Practices in the Danish West Indies
Comparative Studies in Society and History
2018
The Concept of Nature
Storied Lines
Norwegian Archaeological Review
To tree, or not to tree? On the Empirical Basis for Having Past Landscapes to Experience
Digital Humanities Quarterly
2017
Archaeological imprints
Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
Water Futures, Biosociality, and Other-Wise Agency: An Explorative Essay
ANUAC
Fjallið sem yppti öxlum
2016
Foreword
Reykjavík’s abandoned building sites
Gildi landslags: fagurferði, menningarminjar og saga
Gildi landslags: fagurferði, menningarminjar og saga
Down to Earth: Geosocialities and Geopolitics
Environmental Humanitie
Thinking biosocially
Sociological Review
Can Science Resolve the Nature/Nurture Debate?
Unstable Bodies: A Biosocial Perspective on Human Variation
Perspectives on the intersection of biology and society
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Gildi landslags: fagurferði, menningarminjar og saga
2015
Fishing Societies
Nature, culture, and society
Anthropology, Genomics, and Human Variation: National Roots
2014
LabouringMe, LabouringUS
The Forest and the Trees
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Preface
Gambling debt
Reykjavík's abandoned building sites
Ensembles of Biosocial Relations
Integrating social and biological anthropology
Preface
Introduction
Retrospect
Personal Names
Science Technology and Human Values
Hans Jónatan, maðurinn sem stal sjálfum sér
2013
Retrospect
Reconceptualizing the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene: Integrating the Social Sciences and Humanities in Global Environmental Change Research
Environmental Science and Policy
Örkin hans Nóa: Nim Chimpsky og við hin
Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the Caribbean
Life at the border
Responses to environmental and societal challenges for our unstable earth
Environmental Science and Policy
Orientations in Anthropology
Life at the Border
Ensembles of Biosocial Relations
2012
Decode Me! Anthropology and Personal Genomics
Current Anthropology
These Are Not Old Ruins
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Homo islandicus – inn að beini
Tímarit Máls og menningar
2011
Make no bones about it: The invention of Homo islandicus
Acta Borealia
Natur/Kultur
Hot Bodies in Cold Zones: Arctic exploration
Inter-Nord
Genomic Stuff: Governing the (Im)matter of Life
International Journal of the Commons
2010
Disciplining Anthropology
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
2009
The Bog in Our Brain and Bowels: The Social Attitudes to the Carthography of Icelandic Wetlands
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Biosocial Relations of Production
Comparative Studies in Society and History
The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine
The Marsh of Modernity: Iceland and Beyond
The bog in our brain and bowels
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Foreword
Spitting Image
Anthropology Now
2008
Genomic Anthropology: Coming in From the Cold?
Current Anthropology
The Rise and Fall of a Biobank: The Case of Iceland
The Iceland Controversy
A Model Society: The Skin and the Universe Within
Celestial Bodies: Lucy in the Sky
2007
Anthropology and the New Genetics
How Deep is the Skin? The Geneticization of Race and Medicine
BioSocieties
2006
Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity
Appropriating Family Trees: Genealogies in the Age of Genetics
mtDNA variation in Inuit populations of Greenland and Canada
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
2005
Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Arctic Explorer
The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Trans-National Market of Civic Virtue
Icelandic biobanks
Of Althings!
2004
Decoding relations and disease
Race and the intimate in Arctic exploration
Ethnos
2003
Blondes, lost and found
Developing World Bioethics
Biogenetics in Iceland
Society
Mood, magic, and metaphor
Blonds, Lost and Found: Representations of Genes, Identity, and History
Developing World Bioethics
2002
For whom the cell tolls
Current Anthropology
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Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
2001
The Icelandic genome debate
Trends in Biotechnology
Identität, genealogie und pharmakogenomik in Island
Medizinische Genetik
2000
Islande
Biofutur
1999
Iceland
Anthropology Today
Kvótakerfið: kenning og veruleiki
Skírnir
1998
The virtual aquarium
Ecological Economics
The intimate arctic
Ethnos
1997
Contested commodities: The moral landscape of modernist regimes
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
1996
The politics of production: Equity, efficiency and enclosure, in Images of contemporary Iceland: Everyday lives and global contexts
University of Iowa Press
Property rights and practical knowledge: The Icelandic quota system, in Fisheries management in crisis
Blackwell Science
1995
Figuring fish and measuring men
Ocean and Coastal Management
Figuring fish and measuring men: The ITQ system in the Icelandic Cod Fishery
Ocean & Costal Management
1992
Rhetorics of Skill and Skillful Rhetorics
American Anthropologist
1990
Systems of Production and Social Discourse
American Anthropologist
1988
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American Ethnologist
1987
Ownership at sea
American Ethnologist
1986
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American Ethnologist
1985
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Ethnos
reply to Steven L. McNabb
American Ethnologist
1984
Fall er fararheill. Um fallnotkun með ópersónulegum sögnum
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Fall er fararheill. Um fallnotkun með ópersónulegum sögnum
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Fall er fararheill. Um fallnotkun með ópersónulegum sögnum
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
reply to Gatewood
American Ethnologist
1983
Icelandic foremen and skippers
American Ethnologist
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