Gísli Pálsson
Gísli Pálsson (born 1949 Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland) is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland.[1] He is the author, editor, or co-editor of several books, including Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of V. Stefansson (2001), The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn (1995), and Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives. He has published a biography of one of the first people of colour to live in Iceland, Hans Jonatan.[2]
Gísli was awarded the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami in 2000[citation needed]. He is a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
References[]
- ^ Staff (1970-01-01). "Gisli Palsson | University of Iceland - Academia.edu". Hi.academia.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
- ^ Palsson, Gisli (2016). The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan. University of Chicago Press.
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