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Dr Arnar Árnason

Dr Arnar Árnason
Dr Arnar Árnason
Dr Arnar Árnason

BA, MA, PhD

Senior Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

About
Email Address
arnar.arnason@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273127
School/Department
School of Social Science
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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

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Anthropology.

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Anthropology

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Accepting PhDs
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Research Specialisms

  • Anthropology

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Current Research

Care in Funerals | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen (abdn.ac.uk)

Funding and Grants

Care in Funerals | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen (abdn.ac.uk)

Teaching

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

    Arnason, A.
    The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Callan, H. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Death and Governmentality in Iceland: Neo-liberalism, Grief and the Nation-form

    Arnason, A., Hafsteinsson, S. B.
    University of Iceland Press, Reykjavík
    Books and Reports: Books

  • The idea of gardening and landscape restoration in Iceland

    Arnason, A., Kuprian, A.
    Journal of Scottish Thought, vol. 9, pp. 139-159
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Death as resource: a story of organ donation and communication across the ‘great mist’ in Iceland

    Arnason, A.
    Medicine Anthropology Theory, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 50-68
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Introduction

    Árnason, A., Nightingale, A., Shucksmith, M., Vergunst, J.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts

  • Preface

    Árnason, A., Shucksmith, M., Vergunst, J.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts

  • Using environmental resources: Networks in food and landscape

    Vergunst, J., Árnason, A., Macintyre, R., Nightingale, A.
    Comparing Rural Development: Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe. Taylor and Francis, pp. 143-169, 27 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Between the past and the future: Migration and melancholic nationalism in Iceland

    Arnason, A.
    Migration and Mental Health: Past and Present. Harper, M. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 201-220, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Individuals and Relationships: On the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Presence

    Árnason, A.
    Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality across Disciplines. Taylor and Francis, pp. 59-70, 12 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Speeding Towards the Future through the Past: Landscape, Movement and National Identity

    Arnason, A., Hafsteinsson, S. B., Gretarsdottir, T., Schram, K., Kjartansdottir, K.
    Landscape Research, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 23-38
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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