Dr Arnar Árnason
BA, MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer
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- Email Address
- arnar.arnason@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273127
- School/Department
- School of Social Science
Biography
Arnar Árnason was appointed lecturer in social anthropology in the Department in September 2004. He has a B.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Iceland, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Social Anthropology from the University of Durham, England. He has carried out fieldwork in England, Japan, Iceland and Scotland.
His research interests include:
- death, emotion, and psychotherapy and the politics thereof;
- trauma
- subjectivities/subjection;
- narratives, memory and forgetting;
- embodiment;
- identity and landscape
- Research
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Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Anthropology.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Anthropology
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
- AT3006 Doing Anthropological Research
- AT3501 Anthropological Theory
- AT5001 Philosophy and Methods of Research in Social Anthropology, Ethnology and Cultural History I
- SL5007 Methodology, Theory and Ethics
- Publications
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Death and Burial
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Callan, H. (ed.). Wiley-BlackwellChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI:
Death and Governmentality in Iceland: Neo-liberalism, Grief and the Nation-form
University of Iceland Press, ReykjavíkBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE]
The idea of gardening and landscape restoration in Iceland
Journal of Scottish Thought, vol. 9, pp. 139-159Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDeath as resource: a story of organ donation and communication across the ‘great mist’ in Iceland
Medicine Anthropology Theory, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 50-68Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Introduction
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts- [ONLINE]
Preface
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts- [ONLINE]
Between the past and the future: Migration and melancholic nationalism in Iceland
Migration and Mental Health: Past and Present. Harper, M. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 201-220, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI:
Speeding Towards the Future through the Past: Landscape, Movement and National Identity
Landscape Research, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 23-38Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
On the Deathly Construction of Society
The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Van Brussel, L., Carpentier, N. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 185-201, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI:
The uses and abuses of the past: cultural rhetoric and the unmaking of a moral universe
Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 15-32Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: