Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene
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Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

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  2. English
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Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

About this book

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary.

Utilizing carefully considered anthropological perspectives drawn from over a decade of anthropological fieldwork, the author employs islands as a complex set of lenses to examine the ways that we are intimately connected, separated, and divided from ourselves, one another, and the planet. Moving across time, place and disciplinary boundaries, this book traces a narrative route from the remote islands of Micronesia to the subarctic expanses of northern Iceland, all in service of gaining a deeper understanding of the cultural resonance of islands.

This book offers the reader a type of ideological travel guide, one that exchanges restaurant reviews and hotel recommendations for pathways of reflection and new modes of seeing and being in the world. It will be of interest to scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and readers from human geography, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and American studies.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781032285900
eBook ISBN
9781000824100
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface: Palm-of-the-Hand Ethnography and Other Related Considerations
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Arriving: An Introduction to Island Anthropology
  11. 2 Wave Glossary: To and from Yap
  12. 3 On Becoming an Ethnographic Ghost in the Faroe Islands
  13. 4 Newfoundland: A Place Apart
  14. 5 Iceland I: New Old Dreamworlds
  15. 6 Iceland II: Come-from-Away
  16. 7 Phantom Islands: Shorelines without Islands
  17. 8 Hauntological Islands
  18. 9 A Conclusion by Means of Describing Certain Lessons That Islands Have Taught Me
  19. Afterword: The Benefits of Thinking with Anthropology and Islands
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index