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The Textual Life of Savants
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Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn
The Textual Life of Savants
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The Textual Life of Savants book
Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn
ByGisli Pálsson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1995
eBook Published 30 September 2013
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 224
eBook ISBN 9781315077659
Subjects Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Social Sciences
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Pálsson, G. (1995). The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315077659
ABSTRACT
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|24 pages
Introduction
part |2 pages
PART ONE From Life to Text
chapter 2|20 pages
The Conventional Metaphor of Cultural Translation
chapter 3|26 pages
The Factual, the Fictive and the Fabulous: Novel and Ethnography
part |2 pages
PART TWO Times, Lives and Medieval Texts
chapter 4|24 pages
Sagas, History, and Social Life
chapter 5|22 pages
The Power of Words and the Context of Witchcraft
part |2 pages
PART THREE Lives, Texts and Modern Realities