Dr Arnar Árnason
BA, MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer
- About
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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
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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 HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International 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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A tale of two deaths: Spectacular death and the scene of pain
The age of spectacular death. Jacobsen, M. (ed.). 1st edition. Routledge, pp. 144-161, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429351556
Landscapes of Trauma: a Reflection on Wonder
Journal of Scottish Thought, vol. 11, pp. 152-175Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHis father came to him in his sleep: an essay on Enlightenment, mortalities and immortalities in Iceland
An anthropology of the Enlightenment. Rapport, N., Wardle, H. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 37-50, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAa drepe den siste geirfugl: Om artsdod og nye beginnelser
Kollaps. Dreyers Forlag, pp. 99-108, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDeath and Burial
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Callan, H. (ed.). Wiley-BlackwellChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396
Death and Governmentality in Iceland: Neo-liberalism, Grief and the Nation-form
University of Iceland Press, ReykjavíkBooks and Reports: BooksThe 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: https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.4.460
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9801/1/Death_as_resource.pdf
Between the past and the future: Migration and melancholic nationalism in Iceland
Migration and Mental Health. Harper, M. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 201-220, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52968-8_10
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: https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2013.875987
