The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn

Gísli Pálsson

Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 210 pages

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About the author

Gisli Palsson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik. He has conducted fieldwork in Iceland, the Republic of Cape Verde and the Canadian Arctic, and has written on a variety of issues including biomedicine, genomics, genetic history, human-animal relations, fishing, arctic exploration, environmental discourse and the history of slavery.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn; Volume 18 of Studies in anthropology and history, ISSN 1055-2464
• Author: Gísli Pálsson
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995
• ISBN: 3718657228, 9783718657223
• Length: 210 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics