PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND WRITINGS
RELATED TO ICELAND
David Koester
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PUBLICATIONS -
"Reputation and Deliberate History in Saga Iceland" in Language, Culture and the Individual. A Tribute to Paul Friedrich. Catherine O’Neil, Mary Scoggin and Kevin Tuite, eds. Lincom Europa, pp. 128-148. 2006.
"Imagination and play
in children's reflections on cultural life:
Implications for cultural continuity and educational practice,"
"Childhood in National Consciousness and National
Consciousness in Childhood," Childhood 1997.
4(1):127-144.
"National Childhood: Expression of Icelandic National
Identity in Icelandic Life Writing," in Imagined Childhoods, Marianne Gullestad, ed. Scandinavian University Press, pp. 137-157, 1996.
"The Social and Cultural
Dimensions of Icelandic Obituarial Discourse," Journal of Linguistic
Anthropology 1995. 5(2):157-182.
"Gender Ideology and
Nationalism in the Culture and Politics of Iceland," American
Ethnologist 1995. 22(3):572-588.
"Icelandic Confirmation Ritual In Cultural-Historical
Perspective," Scandinavian Studies.
1995. Vol. 67(4):476-515.
Book Reviews:
Icelandic Spiritualism: Mediumship and Modernity in Iceland by William H.
Swatos, Jr. and Loftur Reimar Gissurarson, Transaction Publishers, 1997, Scandinavian
Studies, 1998, 70(1):149-150.
Icelandic Essays, explorations in the anthropology of
modern life by Paul Durrenberger, Rudi Publishing, 1995. Scandinavian Studies. 1997, 69(1):138-139.
Island of anthropology: Studies in past and present Iceland by Kirsten
Hastrup. Odense University Press,
1990. Ethnologia Scandinavica. 1992, 22:163-164.
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law and Society in Saga Iceland by William Ian
Miller. University of Chicago
Press, 1990. Ethnohistory. 1992,
39(2):224-226.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, EXHIBITS, REPORTS
• "Internalizations
and Representations of Global and Local Perspectives in the Long History of
Icelandic-Danish Colonial Relations" Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, Nov., 1999, Chicago.
•"Imagination and play in children's reflections
on cultural life: Implications
for cultural continuity and educational practice," presented at Bicultural
Education in the North: Ways
of Preserving and Enhancing Indigenous Peoples' Languages and Traditional
Knowledge," Halle, Germany, December 14, 1997.
•"National Consciousness in Childhood and Childhood
in National Consciousness," Center for Child Research, Trondheim, Norway,
May 13, 1994.
•"Obituarial Discourse in Iceland," Teacher's
College Seminar Series, February 24, 1993.
•"Historical Conceptions among Icelandic Children,"
History and Anthropology Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Columbia
University, October 21, 1992.
•"Nationalist Imagery in a Period of Historical
Change: Adult and Child Views
of the Grandparental Past in Iceland,"
invited paper at Children at Risk,
May 15, 1992, Bergen, Norway.
•"National Childhood: The Place of Nationalist Imagery in Icelandic Life Writing,"
Invited paper at a workshop entitled, Towards the comparative and interpretive
understanding of childhood through autobiographies/life stories,
sponsored by the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, May 11, 1992, Voss,
Norway (publication planned).
•"Ethnographic Writing as a Motive Force in the
Early Development of National Consciousness" Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association: December
4, 1991, Chicago.
•"Reputation in the Icelandic Conception of Honor: An Anthropological Point of View,"
at the 25th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
May 10, 1990.
•"Obituarial Discourse in Iceland." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological
Association: November 17, 1989,
Washington, D.C.
•"Saga and Metasaga: Reputation and Honor in Icelandic Society." Charles Darwin Society, Purdue University:
October 20, 1989, West Lafayette, Indiana.
•"`Mother', National Identity and the Feminine Ethic
in Icelandic Culture." For
the session "Engendering Discourse and Practice," AAA Annual Meetings,
November 1988.
•"Historical Thinking and Expression among Icelandic
Children," invited paper, presented May 1987, University of Iowa, conference
on The Anthropology of Iceland.
•"The Ethnographic Study of Historical Consciousness,"
Samfélagstiðindi 6(1):67-82. 1986.
•"Report of a Survey of Visitors to the National
Musuem of Iceland," 1985.