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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... Petersen 1972). As in Iceland, the Faroese parliament was “apparently presided over by a logsogumadr, 'law speaker,'” although later this official was called the logmaður (Foote and Wilson 1970:91; see also Foote 1970:174). It met once ...
... Petersen 1955:8). Trading rights were granted by the Norwegian king (or the Danish-Norwegian king, with more and more emphasis on the “Danish”), who rented them out to interested merchants. These merchants were often Hanseatic, but they ...
... Petersen 1955:16). Thus by 1620, the Faroes' political, commercial, and ecclesiastical links to the continent were moved from Bergen to Copenhagen. From a Danish point of view, the Faroes must increasingly have resembled a Danish ...
... Petersen 1968:89). “Within sight of land” came to be defined as four miles, or sixteen sea miles as we now reckon it. Of course the “sea limit” was not regularly patrolled; although in 1698, for example, a Dutch fishing vessel was ...
... Petersen 1968:105). The danicism festi became the current local term, a significant exception to the general rule that Danish terms concerning agriculture did not replace local ones (P. Petersen 1968:138). Tenant farmers have been ...
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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 |