TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oslund,Karen
TI  - Iceland imagined: nature, culture, and storytelling in the North Atlantic 
T2  - Weyerhaeuser environmental books
SN  - 9780295802992
AV  - GF645.I25 
U1  - 949.12 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Iceland
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Écologie humaine
KW  - Islande
KW  - Sciences naturelles
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Scandinavia
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Travel
KW  - Humanökologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Natur
KW  - Kultur
KW  - Repräsentation
KW  - Soziologie
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Descriptions et voyages
KW  - Island
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-251)and index; Introduction: imagining Iceland, narrating the North -- Icelandic landscapes -- Natural histories and national histories -- Nordic by nature -- Classifying and controlling Flora and Fauna in Iceland -- Mastering the world's edges -- Technology, tools, and material culture in the North Atlantic -- Translating and converting -- Language and religion in Greenland -- Reading backward -- Language and the sagas in the Faroe Islands -- Epilogue: whales and men -- Contested scientific ethics and cultural politics in the North Atlantic
N2  - "Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe, a transformation that is narrated in Karen Oslund's Iceland Imagined. This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic North Atlantic landscape, exploring its unusual geography, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics, and analyzing its emergence as a distinctive and symbolic part of Europe. The earliest visions of a wild frontier, filled with dangerous and unpredictable inhabitants, eventually gave way to images of beautiful, well-managed lands, inhabited by simple but virtuous people living close to nature; This transformation was accomplished by state-sponsored natural histories of Iceland which explained that the monsters described in medieval and Renaissance travel accounts did not really exist, and by artists who painted the Icelandic landscapes to reflect their fertile and regulated qualities. Literary scholars and linguists who came to Iceland and Greenland in the nineteenth century related the stories and the languages of the "wild North" to those of their home countries."--Publisher
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