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Gísli Pálsson - Professor Emeritus

Gísli Pálsson

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Gísli Pálsson

Professor Emeritus

Professor of Anthropology

Location
Utan H.Í.
Email
gpals [at] hi.is

Unit
Anthropology
Website
https://scholar.google.is/citations?user=5BTSO78AAAAJ&hl=en
Published Work
Gísli Pálsson - published work

Curriculum Vitae
Gísli Pálsson - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9602-0839
Research portal – Gísli Pálsson

Published works

2024

THE LAST OF ITS KIND

2023

Anthropologies of extinctionAnthropology Today
Leysinginn: Karabískur þræll gerist íslenskur bóndi

2022

“Vegabréf fuglanna”Náttúrufræðingurinn

2021

A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary ResearchInternet Archaeology
Paul T.W. BaxterEthnos
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary ResearchInternet Archaeology
Ethnography Beyond the HumanEthnos
Cutting the Network, Knotting the LineJournal of Archaeological Method and Theory
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary ResearchInternet Archaeology

2020

Orientations in Anthropology
Introduction
Household words
EPISCOPAL ECONOMICSScandinavian Journal of History
Episcopal Economics. Property and power in post-reformation IcelandScandinavian Journal of History
Cash for quotas
The importance of friendship in the absence of states, according to the icelandic sagas
Dépister l’ancestralité: Machines et techniques généalogiques dans la reconstruction des histoires de familleEthnologie francaiçse
Down to Earth
Episcopal Economics. Property and power in post-reformation IcelandScandinavian Journal of History
The Human Age: How We Created the Anthropocene Epoch and Caused the Climate Crisis
Fuglinn sem gat ekki flogið
Episcopal Economics. Property and power in post-reformation IcelandScandinavian Journal of History
Preface
Beyond boundaries

2019

Domination, Subsistence, and InterdependenceHuman Ecology
Corporate Skin: Biosocial Relations, Tropes, and Institutions in Prosthetics Research and DevelopmentJournal of Material Culture
From Enslavement to Emancipation: Naming Practices in the Danish West IndiesComparative Studies in Society and History

2018

The Concept of Nature
Storied LinesNorwegian Archaeological Review
To tree, or not to tree? On the Empirical Basis for Having Past Landscapes to ExperienceDigital Humanities Quarterly

2017

Archaeological imprintsJournal of Contemporary Archaeology
Water Futures, Biosociality, and Other-Wise Agency: An Explorative EssayANUAC
Fjallið sem yppti öxlum

2016

Foreword
Reykjavík’s abandoned building sites
Gildi landslags: fagurferði, menningarminjar og saga
Gildi landslags: fagurferði, menningarminjar og saga
Down to Earth: Geosocialities and GeopoliticsEnvironmental Humanitie
Thinking biosociallySociological Review
Can Science Resolve the Nature/Nurture Debate?
Unstable Bodies: A Biosocial Perspective on Human Variation
Perspectives on the intersection of biology and societyJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Gildi landslags: fagurferði, menningarminjar og saga

2015

Fishing Societies
Nature, culture, and society
Anthropology, Genomics, and Human Variation: National Roots

2014

LabouringMe, LabouringUS
The Forest and the TreesHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Preface
Gambling debt
Reykjavík's abandoned building sites
Ensembles of Biosocial Relations
Integrating social and biological anthropology
Preface
Introduction
Retrospect
Personal NamesScience Technology and Human Values
Hans Jónatan, maðurinn sem stal sjálfum sér

2013

Retrospect
Reconceptualizing the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene: Integrating the Social Sciences and Humanities in Global Environmental Change ResearchEnvironmental Science and Policy
Örkin hans Nóa: Nim Chimpsky og við hin
Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the Caribbean
Life at the border
Responses to environmental and societal challenges for our unstable earthEnvironmental Science and Policy
Orientations in Anthropology
Life at the Border
Ensembles of Biosocial Relations

2012

Decode Me! Anthropology and Personal GenomicsCurrent Anthropology
These Are Not Old RuinsInternational Journal of Historical Archaeology
Homo islandicus – inn að beiniTímarit Máls og menningar

2011

Make no bones about it: The invention of Homo islandicusActa Borealia
Natur/Kultur
Hot Bodies in Cold Zones: Arctic explorationInter-Nord
Genomic Stuff: Governing the (Im)matter of LifeInternational Journal of the Commons

2010

Disciplining AnthropologyNorsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift

2009

The Bog in Our Brain and Bowels: The Social Attitudes to the Carthography of Icelandic WetlandsEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space
Biosocial Relations of ProductionComparative Studies in Society and History
The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine
The Marsh of Modernity: Iceland and Beyond
The bog in our brain and bowelsEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space
Foreword
Spitting ImageAnthropology Now

2008

Genomic Anthropology: Coming in From the Cold?Current Anthropology
The Rise and Fall of a Biobank: The Case of Iceland
The Iceland Controversy
A Model Society: The Skin and the Universe Within
Celestial Bodies: Lucy in the Sky

2007

Anthropology and the New Genetics
How Deep is the Skin? The Geneticization of Race and MedicineBioSocieties

2006

Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity
Appropriating Family Trees: Genealogies in the Age of Genetics
mtDNA variation in Inuit populations of Greenland and CanadaAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology

2005

Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Arctic Explorer
The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Trans-National Market of Civic Virtue
Icelandic biobanks
Of Althings!

2004

Decoding relations and disease
Race and the intimate in Arctic explorationEthnos

2003

Blondes, lost and foundDeveloping World Bioethics
Biogenetics in IcelandSociety
Mood, magic, and metaphor
Blonds, Lost and Found: Representations of Genes, Identity, and HistoryDeveloping World Bioethics

2002

For whom the cell tollsCurrent Anthropology
The life of family trees and the Book of IcelandersMedical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

2001

The Icelandic genome debateTrends in Biotechnology
Identität, genealogie und pharmakogenomik in IslandMedizinische Genetik

2000

IslandeBiofutur

1999

IcelandAnthropology Today
Kvótakerfið: kenning og veruleikiSkírnir

1998

The virtual aquariumEcological Economics
The intimate arcticEthnos

1997

Contested commodities: The moral landscape of modernist regimesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

1996

The politics of production: Equity, efficiency and enclosure, in Images of contemporary Iceland: Everyday lives and global contextsUniversity of Iowa Press
Property rights and practical knowledge: The Icelandic quota system, in Fisheries management in crisisBlackwell Science

1995

Figuring fish and measuring menOcean and Coastal Management
Figuring fish and measuring men: The ITQ system in the Icelandic Cod FisheryOcean & Costal Management

1992

Rhetorics of Skill and Skillful RhetoricsAmerican Anthropologist

1990

Systems of Production and Social DiscourseAmerican Anthropologist

1988

Anthropology and fisheries managementAmerican Ethnologist

1987

Ownership at seaAmerican Ethnologist

1986

Finding fishAmerican Ethnologist

1985

Peasants, Entrepreneurs and CompaniesEthnos
reply to Steven L. McNabbAmerican Ethnologist

1984

Fall er fararheill. Um fallnotkun með ópersónulegum sögnumÍslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Fall er fararheill. Um fallnotkun með ópersónulegum sögnumÍslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Fall er fararheill. Um fallnotkun með ópersónulegum sögnumÍslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
reply to GatewoodAmerican Ethnologist

1983

Icelandic foremen and skippersAmerican Ethnologist

Keywords for Specialisation:

Social implications of biomedicine

Environmental anthropology

Genetic history

Inuit societies

History of slavery

Human-animal relations