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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... Social Change in the Faroes, 18561920 / 113 7. Now the Hour is Come to Hand: Culture and Politics, 1890-1920 / 139 CONCLUSION: Specters and Illusions / 173 Appendix: Governance and Governors / 199 Notes / 205 References / 231 Index ...
... Social Relations, Harvard University), the Foreign Area Fellowship Program, the Program in Marine Policy and Ocean Management at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a Senior Research Fellowship from the Fulbright Program in the ...
... social anthropology. Casting about for a place to do fieldwork, I was heartened by the very short shelf of literature I thought I should have to master in order to write a standard sort of village study. This pleasant expectation began ...
... social changes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended upon the reformulation of an acute literary and historical self-consciousness. I have made a second discovery more slowly, a discovery that is not only my own ...
... social organization has changed and their identity has been redefined by formally establishing their cultural distinctiveness as a claim to recognition as a separate political entity. Here the anthropological and, indeed, the general ...
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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 |