The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of HistoryUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1987 - 257 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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44. oldal
... late seventeenth- and eighteenth - century ) legends seem less real- istic than older ones ? More generally : In what sense does a legend col- lected in the late nineteenth century represent an accurate account of , say , events that ...
... late seventeenth- and eighteenth - century ) legends seem less real- istic than older ones ? More generally : In what sense does a legend col- lected in the late nineteenth century represent an accurate account of , say , events that ...
70. oldal
... late thirteenth century of controlling population growth by restricting mar- riage . Faroese and Danish authorities reacted conservatively to the grow- ing population pressure by extending this tradition . I shall suggest , how- ever ...
... late thirteenth century of controlling population growth by restricting mar- riage . Faroese and Danish authorities reacted conservatively to the grow- ing population pressure by extending this tradition . I shall suggest , how- ever ...
181. oldal
... late 1870s , but , herring being a notoriously fickle species , it declined rapidly after a record year in 1905 . By that time , Shetland's population had been falling for many years . Population growth had slowed as early as the 1830s ...
... late 1870s , but , herring being a notoriously fickle species , it declined rapidly after a record year in 1905 . By that time , Shetland's population had been falling for many years . Population growth had slowed as early as the 1830s ...
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Figures and Tables Figures | 4 |
Norse Settlement to Danish Monopoly | 7 |
Institutions and officials of the Faroes | 12 |
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