The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of HistoryUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014. júl. 15. - 280 oldal Stranded in a stormy corner of the North Atlantic midway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are part of "the unknown Western Europe"—a region of recent economic development and subnational peoples facing uncertain futures. This book tells the remarkable story of the Faroes' cultural survival since their Viking settlement in the early ninth century. At first an unruly little republic, the islands soon became tributary to Norway, dwindled into a Danish-Norwegian mercantilist fiefdom, and in 1816 were made a Danish province. Today, however, they are an internally self-governing Danish dependency, with a prosperous export fishery and a rich intellectual life carried out in the local language, Faroese. Jonathan Wylie, an anthropologist who has done extensive field work in the Faroes, creates here a vivid picture of everyday life and affairs of state over the centuries, using sources ranging from folkloric texts to parliamentary minutes and from census data to travelers' tales. He argues that the Faroes' long economic stagnation preserved an archaic way of life that was seriously threatened by their economic renaissance in the nineteenth century, especially as this was accompanied by a closer political incorporation into Denmark. The Faroese accommodated increasingly profound social change by selectively restating their literary and historical heritage. Their success depended on domesticating a Danish ideology glorifying "folkish" ways and so claiming a nationality separate from Denmark's. The book concludes by comparing the Faroes' nationality-without-nationhood to the contrasting situations of their closest neighbors, Iceland and Shetland. The Faroe Islands is an important contribution to Scandinavian as well as regional and ethnic studies and to the growing literature combining the insights and techniques of anthropology and history. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, it will also appeal to scholars in other fields and to anyone intrigued by the lands and peoples of the North. |
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... (Debes 1676:283-86). But otherwise Danish replaced both Latin in the Church and the vernacular for law and commerce during the second half of the sixteenth century. Thus by 1600, “the old Faroese language of the Middle Ages had ...
... Debes was to write in 1673, the Faroese were “so minded in general that they will not change their ways” (1676:257). In short, the Faroese were asking Christian IV to safeguard their way of life. He should protect the basis of their ...
... Debes wrote in 1673, “the riches of the Inhabitants doth consist in their Sheep, for those that have many of them, though few grow rich thereby, those means being very casual; for when there cometh a hard Winter and Sheep dye, they are ...
... Debes, who was South Streymoy's priest from 1652 to 1675 and dean from 1670 to 1675) married his Faroese successor, Søren Johannesen. One of Debes's step-daughters—for his wife was the widow of his predecessor, the second-generation ...
... Debes, who, as dean from 1670 to 1675, earned the Gabel's enmity by protesting the corruption of the bailiff and the oppression of the poor in Tórshavn. Another description of the Faroes was written by Debes's student, T. J. Tarnovius ...
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Toward a National Culture in an Odd Danish Province | 65 |
Specters and Illusions | 173 |
Governance and Governors | 199 |
Notes | 205 |
References | 231 |
Index | 249 |