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Anthropology, islands, and the search for meaning in the Anthropocene
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Anthropology, islands, and the search for meaning in the Anthropocene [electronic resource] / Justin Armstrong.
ISBN
9781003297581
1003297587
9781000824087
100082408X
9781000824100
1000824101
9781032285900
9781032285931
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Justin Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer in Writing and Anthropology at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. His main research interests are experimental ethnography, ethnographic writing, abandoned places, economic anthropology, and the anthropology of islands. He conducts research in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Newfoundland, and Micronesia. He is the author of a novel, Wyomings (2018), along with a number of scholarly articles and book chapters.
Other formats
Print version: Armstrong, Justin. Anthropology, islands, and the search for meaning in the Anthropocene New York : Routledge, 2023
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 05, 2022
Series
Ocean and island studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface: Palm-of-the-Hand Ethnographies
Arriving: An Introduction to Island Anthropology
Wave Glossary: To and From Yap
On Becoming an Ethnographic Ghost in the Faroe Islands
Newfoundland: A Place Apart
Iceland I: New Old Dreamworlds
Iceland II: Come-From-Away
Phantom Islands: Shorelines Without Water
Hauntological Islands
A Conclusion by Means of Describing Certain Lessons That Islands Have Taught Me
Afterward: The Benefits of Thinking with Anthropology and Islands.
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