Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

Justin Armstrong (Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Sociology; Human geography

Series: Ocean and Island Studies

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary.

Utilizing carefully considered anthropological perspectives drawn from over a decade of anthropological fieldwork, the author employs islands as a complex set of lenses to examine the ways that we are intimately connected, separated, and divided from ourselves, one another, and the planet. Moving across time, place and disciplinary boundaries, this book traces a narrative route from the remote islands of Micronesia to the subarctic expanses of northern Iceland, all in service of gaining a deeper understanding of the cultural resonance of islands.

This book offers the reader a type of ideological travel guide, one that exchanges restaurant reviews and hotel recommendations for pathways of reflection and new modes of seeing and being in the world. It will be of interest to scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and readers from human geography, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and American studies.

By: Justin Armstrong (Wellesley College Massachusetts USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 150g
ISBN: 9781032285931
ISBN 10: 1032285931
Series: Ocean and Island Studies
Pages: 68
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Arriving: An Introduction to Island Anthropology 2. Wave Glossary: To and From Yap 3. On Becoming an Ethnographic Ghost in the Faroe Islands 4. Newfoundland: A Place Apart 5. Iceland I: New Old Dreamworlds 6. Iceland II: Come-From-Away 7. Phantom Islands: Shorelines Without Water 8. Hauntological Islands 9. A Conclusion by Means of Describing Certain Lessons That Islands Have Taught Me

Justin Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer in Writing and Anthropology at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. His main research interests are experimental ethnography, ethnographic writing, abandoned places, economic anthropology, and the anthropology of islands. He conducts research in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Newfoundland, and Micronesia. He is the author of a novel, Wyomings (2018), along with a number of scholarly articles and book chapters.

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Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

Justin Armstrong (Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA)

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