Author : Magnus Einarsson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772823597
This selection of 175 Icelandic-Canadian oral narratives contains folktales, legends, humorous anecdotes, tall tales, and simple accounts of daily events. The first 51 narratives are grounded in old-country experiences and the remainder reflect immigrant life in Canada.
Author : Magnús Einarsson
Publisher : Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
This selection of one hundred and seventy five Icelandic-Canadian oral narratives contains folktales, legends, memorates, humorous anecdotes, tall tales, and simple accounts of daily events. The first fifty one narratives are grounded in the Old Country experience with the remainder reflecting Icelandic immigrant life in Canada.
Author : Magnús Einarsson
Publisher : Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780660140049
Icelandic-Canadian Memory Lore
Author : Laurie K Bertram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1442663014
A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic North American culture over a century and a half.
Author : Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0886293170
This fascinating study explores a remarkable ethnic-Canadian literature in close textual and contextual terms for the first time. It lays a groundwork for future comparative research in the field of ethnic Canadian studies, and challenges assumptions about cultural identity and human experience of the "new."
Author : Magnus Einarsson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772823619
This third book in a series on Icelandic-Canadian folk literature features some 274 verses and poems (originals and translations) that reflect Icelandic immigrant life on the Prairies. They express love, philosophy of life, censure, or simply delight in the joys of daily living and are a uniquely revealing source of information about the emotional and intellectual life of Icelandic immigrants in Canada.
Author : Magnus Einarsson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772823600
These 332 examples of Icelandic traditional poetry and other bound language include children’s rhymes, rigmaroles, riddles, lullabies and prayer verses; adult lore such as dance and drinking songs; religious and humorous poems; and proverbs and sayings. All texts are from a collection recorded in western Canada and North Dakota and Washington in the late 1960s.
Author : Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 177284022X
A celebration of cultural inheritance and the evolution of language. Mapping the language, literature, and history of Icelandic immigrants and their descendants, this collection, translated and expanded for English-speaking audiences, delivers a comprehensive overview of Icelandic linguistic and cultural heritage in North America. Drawn from the findings of a three-year study involving over two hundred participants from Manitoba, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, and the Pacific West Coast, Icelandic Heritage in North America reveals the durability and versatility of the Icelandic language. Editors Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Höskuldur Thráinsson, and Úlfar Bragason bring together a range of interdisciplinary scholarship to investigate the endurance of the “Western Icelander.” Chapters delve into the literary works of Icelandic immigrant writers and interpret archival letters, newspapers, and journal entries to provide both qualitative and quantitative linguistic analyses and to mark significant cultural shifts between early settlement and today. Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.
Author : Jens Kjaerulff
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782386165
Approaching “work” as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows how the perspective offers new ways to enquire about the flexible capitalism’s social dimensions. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change by documenting how, across diverse settings, “gift-like” socialities proliferate, and even sustain the intensified flexible commoditization that more commonly is touted as tearing social relations apart. By interrogating a keenly debated contemporary work regime through an approach to sociality rooted in a rich and distinct anthropological legacy, the volume also makes a novel contribution to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.
Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1459720539
Just when you thought it was safe to peek out from under the covers, along comes Ghost Stories of Canada to remind you that there are plenty of ghouls to watch out for in the True North. Ghost Stories of Canada is a collection of one hundred of the eeriest accounts of ghosts, poltergeists, and hauntings ever told in Canada. Included are descriptions of some the most spine-tingling mysteries of the past - the Mackenzie River Ghost, the Baldoon Mystery, the Wynyard Apparition, and the Great Amherst Mystery, to name a few. There are also first-hand narratives of the ghostly experiences of present-day men and women from all walks of life in all parts of the country. This is a book to sit awake with - especially on a dark and stormy night!
