Gísli Pálsson
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Gísli Pálsson's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gísli Pálsson is an Icelandic anthropologist and academic. He is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Iceland, formerly a professor at the University of Oslo. Pálsson is most known for his work in areas of environmental anthropology, fishing communities, extinction studies, and arctic cultures. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction , The Human Age: How We Created the Anthropocene Epoch and Caused the Climate Crisis , Anthropology and The New Genetic , and Nature, Culture, and Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Life . He is the recipient of the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science from the University of Miami.
Gísli Pálsson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives (2003) (371)
- Reconceptualizing the 'Anthropos' in the Anthropocene: Integrating the social sciences and humanities in global environmental change research (2013) (352)
- Enskilment at sea (1994) (194)
- Biosocial becomings : integrating social and biological anthropology (2013) (158)
- Figuring fish and measuring men : the individual transferable quota system in the Icelandic cod fishery (1995) (147)
- The cosmic food web: Human-nature relatedness in the Northwest Amazon (1996) (132)
- Iceland: the case of a national human genome project. (1999) (123)
- mtDNA variation in Inuit populations of Greenland and Canada: migration history and population structure. (2006) (101)
- ownership at sea: fishing territories and access to sea resources (1987) (97)
- Coastal Economies, Cultural Accounts: Human Ecology and Icelandic Discourse (1991) (94)
- Human-environmental relations: orientalism, paternalism and communalism (2003) (92)
- Contested commodities : The moral landscape of modernist regimes (1997) (88)
- To Dream of Fish: The Causes of Icelandic Skippers' Fishing Success (1982) (78)
- For whom the cell tolls: debates about biomedicine (2002) (67)
- The Icelandic genome debate. (2001) (57)
- Anthropology and the New Genetics (2007) (53)
- Biosocial Relations of Production (2009) (49)
- Historical Ecology: Cultural Knowledge and Changing Landscapes. (1996) (48)
- Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse (1993) (47)
- Systems of Production and Social Discourse: The Skipper Effect Revisited (1990) (46)
- Textual life of the savants : ethnography, Iceland and the linguistic turn (1995) (44)
- Nature, culture, magic, science: On meta-languages for comparison in cultural ecology (1996) (43)
- The cognitive geometry of nature: A contextual approach (1996) (41)
- Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy (2014) (41)
- The virtual aquarium: Commodity fiction and cod fishing (1998) (36)
- The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue (2008) (35)
- Down to Earth: Geosocialities and Geopolitics (2016) (34)
- Nature in culture or culture in nature?: Chewong ideas of ‘humans’ and other species (1996) (34)
- finding fish: the tactics of Icelandic skippers (1986) (32)
- Biosocial Becomings: Ensembles of biosocial relations (2013) (30)
- Images of Contemporary Iceland: Everyday Lives and Global Contexts (1997) (30)
- The Anthropology of Iceland (1989) (29)
- Riddles of Herring and Rhetorics of Success (1983) (28)
- From sagas to society : comparative approaches to early Iceland (1992) (28)
- The Birth of the Aquarium: the Political Ecology of Icelandic Fishing (1998) (27)
- Personal Names (2014) (26)
- Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson (2001) (25)
- Genomic anthropology: coming in from the cold? (2008) (25)
- The idea of fish: land and sea in the Icelandic world-view (1994) (25)
- The life of family trees and the Book of Icelanders (2002) (24)
- Decode Me! (2011) (24)
- The Politics Of Production: Enclosure, Equity, And Efficiency (1996) (21)
- Negotiating nature: Culture, power, and environmental argument (2000) (21)
- Icelandic foremen and skippers: the structure and evolution of a folk model (1983) (20)
- Animism revisited : Personhood, environment, and relational epistemology. Commentaries. Author's reply (1999) (20)
- The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion (1997) (20)
- Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity (2020) (19)
- Challenging ITQs: Legal and Political Action in Iceland, Canada and Latin America A Preliminary Overview (2000) (17)
- How Deep is the Skin? The Geneticization of Race and Medicine (2007) (17)
- Language And Society: The Ethnolinguistics Of Icelanders (1989) (16)
- Schooling and Skipperhood: The Development of Dexterity (1998) (15)
- The forest and the trees (2014) (14)
- These Are Not Old Ruins: A Heritage of the Hrun (2012) (14)
- Ethnography Beyond the Human: The ‘Other-than-Human’ in Ethnographic Work (2019) (13)
- Genomic stuff: Governing the (im)matter of life (2011) (13)
- Peasants, entrepreneurs and companies: The evolution of icelandic fishing* (1985) (12)
- Icelandic Dialogues: Individual Differences in Indigenous Discourse (1992) (11)
- Unstable Bodies: Biosocial Perspectives on Human Variation (2016) (11)
- reply to Gatewood (1984) (11)
- Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson (2005) (11)
- The Bog in Our Brain and Bowels: Social Attitudes to the Cartography of Icelandic Wetlands (2009) (11)
- Race and the intimate in Arctic exploration (2004) (10)
- Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the Caribbean (2013) (10)
- Ecology as semiotics: Outlines of a contextualist paradigm for human ecology (1996) (10)
- Situating nature: Ruins of modernity as náttúruperlur (2013) (10)
- Nature, Culture, and Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Life (2015) (10)
- Celestial bodies: Lucy in the sky (2009) (9)
- Blondes, lost and found: representations of genes, identity, and history. (2003) (9)
- Storied Lines: Network Perspectives on Land Use in Early Modern Iceland (2018) (9)
- Genomic Anthropology (2008) (9)
- The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan (2016) (6)
- The optimal forager and economic man (1996) (6)
- Akvariets regime: natur og samfunn i postmoderne tid (2004) (6)
- Cutting the Network, Knotting the Line: a Linaeological Approach to Network Analysis (2020) (6)
- Territoriality among Icelandic Fishermen (1982) (5)
- Rhetorics of Skill and Skillful Rhetorics (1992) (5)
- From Enslavement to Emancipation: Naming Practices in the Danish West Indies (2019) (5)
- EPISCOPAL ECONOMICS (2020) (5)
- The intimate arctic: An early anthropologist's diary in the strict sense of the term (1998) (4)
- Commodity fiction and cod fishing (1996) (4)
- The implications of ITQs: theory and context. (2000) (4)
- Challenging ITQs: Legal and Poltical Action in Iceland, Canada and Latin America (2001) (3)
- Cash for Quotas: Disputes over the Legitimacy of an Economic Model of Fishing in Iceland (2020) (3)
- Policy, Processors, and Boats: Fishing In Modern Iceland (1982) (3)
- Re-purposing Excavation Database Content as Paradata (2022) (3)
- Archaeological investigations in Mývatnssveit, Reykjadalur and Svartárkot 2010 (2011) (3)
- The Name Of The Witch: Sagas, Sorcery And Social Content (1991) (3)
- Water futures, biosociality, and other-wise agency: An exploratory essay (2017) (3)
- en-counter-maps (2017) (3)
- Make No Bones About It: The Invention of Homo islandicus (2011) (3)
- Building cyberinfrastructure from the ground up for the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization introducing the cyberNABO Project (2015) (3)
- Symbolic identification among the Hadendowa of eastern Sudan. (1990) (2)
- The cosmic food web: human-nature relatedness in the Northwest Amazon Kaj Århem (2003) (2)
- Biogenetics in Iceland (2003) (2)
- The Swedish Transport Administration’s Toolbox and its Potential in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Survey : Including a brief review of remote sensing, prospection and geodata analysis methods for archaeology and cultural heritage (2018) (2)
- Biosocial Becomings: Retrospect (2013) (2)
- Domination, Subsistence, and Interdependence: Tracing Resource Claim Networks across Iceland’s Post-Reformation Landscape (2019) (2)
- Introduction: Text, Life, And Saga (1992) (2)
- Decoding relations and disease: The Icelandic Biogenetic Project (2004) (2)
- Introduction: beyond boundaries (2020) (2)
- Gambling debt : Iceland's struggle with the new world order (2015) (2)
- Nature and society: A contested interface (1996) (2)
- reply to Steven L. McNabb (1985) (2)
- anthropology and fisheries management (1988) (2)
- From Oer-IJ estuary to metropolitan coastal landscape: assessing and preserving archaeological-historical resources from 4000 years of living between land and water (2010) (1)
- Pastoral resources and strategies: similarities and differences between the Rendille and Gabra of northern Kenya (1992) (1)
- Corporate skin: Biosocial relations, tropes, and institutions in prosthetics research and development (2019) (1)
- Lucy in the sky: celestial bodies (2016) (1)
- Cutting the Network, Knotting the Line: a Linaeological Approach to Network Analysis (2020) (1)
- Mood, Magic, and Metaphor: Allusions to Weather and Climate in the Sagas of Icelanders 1 (2021) (1)
- Gambling Debt (1)
- ARKWORK: Archaeological practices and knowledge in the digital environment: DHN 2018 book of abstracts (2018) (1)
- Cultural models in Cape Verdean fishing (1990) (1)
- Re-purposing Excavation Database Content as Paradata An Explorative Analysis of Paradata Identification Challenges and Opportunities (2022) (1)
- Household words: attention, agency and the ethnography of fishing (2020) (1)
- Archaeological Imprints : We Follow Lines and Trace Them (2018) (1)
- A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary Research (2021) (0)
- Maps of experience: the anchoring of land to story in Secwepemc discourse – By Andie Diane Palmer (2007) (0)
- Detecting ancestry: The use of genealogical machines and techniques in the reconstruction of family histories (2020) (0)
- To tree, or not to tree? On the Empirical Basis for Having Past Landscapes to Experience (2018) (0)
- Introduction: Negotiating nature (2000) (0)
- Book Review: Life: A Critical User’s Manual (2019) (0)
- The Importance of Friendship in the Absence of States, According to the Icelandic Sagas (2020) (0)
- Davis, Dona Lee. Twins talk: what twins tell us about person, self, and society. xi, 321 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2015. £21.99 (paper) (2016) (0)
- Down to Earth (2020) (0)
- Reconstructing nature: Alienation, emancipation and the division of labour (1997) (0)
- These Are Not Old Ruins: A Heritage of the Hrun (2012) (0)
- Blowpipes and spears: The social significance of Huaorani technological choices (1996) (0)
- Biosocial Becomings: References (2013) (0)
- Biosocial Becomings: Preface (2013) (0)
- Nature, Culture, and Society: Laboring lives: genomic stuff 36 (2015) (0)
- Enskilment at sea: situated knowledge (2016) (0)
- Down to Earth : A Memoir (2020) (0)
- Social/Cultural Anthropology: Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland. William Ian Miller. (1992) (0)
- The Proprietor, the Operator, the Wage Earner, and the Marginalized: Social Consequences of Fishing Management through the Rights Market System (2004) (0)
- Characterising Grímsnes- & Grafningshreppur. A methodological case study (2011) (0)
- A place apart. An anthropological study of the Icelandic world. BY KIRSTEN HASTRUP . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. 1998. 250 pp. Hb.: £30. ISBN 0 19 823380 9. (2000) (0)
- Editorial Foreword (2019) (0)
- Housekeeping: Oikos and the Anthropocene (2016) (0)
- Disciplining anthropology – Æresforelesning, Norsk Antropologisk Forenings årskonferanse, Trondheim, 7. mai 2010 (2010) (0)
- Negotiating Nature: Culture, Power, and Environmental Argument. Edited by Alf Hornborg and Gísli Pálsson. Lund Studies in Human Ecology, 2. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 2000. 224 pp. (2003) (0)
- Paul, Robert A.: Mixed Messages. Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society (2016) (0)
- Nature, Concepts of (2017) (0)
- Nature, Culture, and Society: Name talk: technologies of belonging (2015) (0)
- Spitting image: decode me! (2016) (0)
- Investigation of the NSCA minimal readiness standards for muscular fitness, balance and performance of high-intensity plyometrics in NCAA college athletes (2012) (0)
- Nature, Culture, and Society: Nim Chimpsky et al .: human–animal relations (2015) (0)
- Human variation: shifting perspectives (2016) (0)
- Environmental relations: political economies (2016) (0)
- From slave to citizen: cultural change among the Lafofa Nuba of central Sudan. (1990) (0)
- Hans Jonathan: The man who stole himself (a documentary). (2017) (0)
- What's in a genome? Indigenous encounters (2016) (0)
- Anthropology, Genomics, and Human Variation: National Roots (2015) (0)
- Nature, Culture, and Society: Modernity and beyond: the grand aquarium (2015) (0)
- Formal categories in Maasai symbolism. (1990) (0)
- Paul T.W. Baxter: Photographing the Other-Than-Human (2019) (0)
- Perspectives on the intersection of biology and society: response to Tehrani and Carrithers: Correspondence (2016) (0)
- 2. The Marsh of Modernity. The Bog in our Brains and Bowels (2014) (0)
- Linking Transdisciplinary Data to Study the Long-Term Human Ecodynamics of the North Atlantic: The cyberNABO Project (2016) (0)
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