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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
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315077659
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

chapter 6|22 pages

Fetishized Language, Symbolic Capital, and Social Identity

chapter 7|24 pages

Beyond Environmental Orientalism

chapter 8|12 pages

Conclusions: Towards a Theory of Living Discourse

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