U.S.-Western Europe Regional Workshop on the Ethnography of Modern Iceland; Iowa City, Iowa; May 28-30, 1993

该奖项支持七位美国人类学家参加一个 关于现代冰岛民族志的欧洲区域讲习班。 这次小型会议是由E博士共同组织的。保罗·杜伦伯格 爱荷华州大学教授和 冰岛大学社会科学系。 会议将于 1993年5月下旬，爱荷华州大学。 的目的 研讨会是分析民族志方面的主要问题 面对现代冰岛，特别是在持续的背景下， 欧洲和美国的发展。 这些问题包括 关于在欧洲联盟框架内规范捕鱼和捕鲸的谈判 欧洲经济共同体（EEC）的经济和政治制度， 冰岛影响其与新兴的欧共体的关系， 美国的政策和冰岛人的反应。此外， 与会者将分析现代殖民主义的根源， 在过去的建设中， 民族认同 这次会议将鼓励扩大研究的重点， 冰岛的文化和人民远离浪漫- 民族主义民俗学学派及其对 在当代世界的位置。 讨论也可能 有助于更广泛的问题，什么是充分的 对一个高度文化化和现代化国家的民族志描述 社会

This award supports seven U.S. anthropologists to participate in a regional European workshop on the ethnography of modern Iceland. The small meeting is jointly organized by Dr. E. Paul Durrenberger of the University of Iowa and Dr. Gisli Palsson of the Faculty of Social Science of the University of Iceland. It will be held at the University of Iowa in late May, 1993. The objective of the workshop is to analyze ethnographic aspects of major questions facing modern Iceland, especially in the context of ongoing developments in Europe and America. Among these issues are negotiations about regulating fishing and whaling under the European Economic Community (EEC), how the economic and political system of Iceland affects its relations with the emerging EEC, the role of American policy and Icelanders' reaction to it. In addition, the meeting participants will analyze the colonial roots of the modern period and the political uses of the past in the construction of national identity. This meeting will encourage expansion of the focus of research on the culture and people of Iceland away from the romantic- nationalistic school of folk studies and toward examination of its place in the contemporary world. The discussions are also likely to contribute to the broader question of what constitutes an adequate ethnographic description of a highly literate and modern state society.