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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.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Anthropology

Supervising
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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  • Technology and Presence in a Museum of Trauma: Therapeutic Effects of Making Danger Real

    Arnason, A., Hafsteinsson, S. B.
    Museums and technologies of presence. Shehade, M., Stylianou, T. (eds.). 1st edition. Routledge, pp. 153-169, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Care in Funerals Casebook

    Entwistle, V., Riley, J., Arnason, A., Kefford, P., Crozier, R., Locock, L., Maccagno, P., Pattenden, A., Pusey, L., Thornton, E., Allana, S., Munro, H., Omer, M., Prinja, N., Suwalowska, H., Voo, T. C., Bickerton, R.
    University of Aberdeen (Website).
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • Why does funeral attendance matter?: Revisiting 'Configurational Eulogies' in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

    Riley, J., Entwistle, V., Arnason, A., Locock, L., Crozier, R., Maccagno, P., Pattenden, A.
    Mortality
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Saying "No" Goes Against the Grain: UK funeral directors’ experiences and the complexities of ‘choice’ during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

    Riley, J., Arnason, A., Entwistle, V.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations

  • Hybrid funerals: how online attendance facilitates and impedes participation

    Riley, J., Entwistle, V., Arnason, A., Locock, L., Maccagno, P., Pattenden, A., Crozier, R.
    Mortality
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Revisiting funeral recordings during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

    Riley, J., Entwistle, V., Arnason, A., Crozier, R., Locock, L., Maccagno, P., Pattenden, A.
    Bereavement, vol. 2, pp. 1-5
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Care in Funerals: Emerging Findings

    Riley, J., Entwistle, V., Arnason, A., Maccagno, P., Crozier, R., Locock, L., Pattenden, A.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations

  • Death, trauma, and the 'event'

    Arnason, A., Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, S. B.
    Death and Events: International perspectives on events marking the end of life. Lamond, I., Dowson, R. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 63-79, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • A tale of two deaths: Spectacular death and the scene of pain

    Arnason, A.
    The age of spectacular death. Jacobsen, M. (ed.). 1st edition. Routledge, pp. 144-161, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Landscapes of Trauma: a Reflection on Wonder

    Hafsteinsson, S. B., Arnason, A.
    Journal of Scottish Thought, vol. 11, pp. 152-175
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • His father came to him in his sleep: an essay on Enlightenment, mortalities and immortalities in Iceland

    Arnason, A.
    An anthropology of the Enlightenment: Moral social relations then and today. Rapport, N., Wardle, H. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 37-50, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Aa drepe den siste geirfugl: Om artsdod og nye beginnelser

    Arnason, A., Ween, G.
    Kollaps: Paa randen av fremtiden. Dreyers Forlag, pp. 99-108, 10 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • On the Deathly Construction of Society

    Arnason, A.
    The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Van Brussel, L., Carpentier, N. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 185-201, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • The uses and abuses of the past: cultural rhetoric and the unmaking of a moral universe

    Arnason, A.
    Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 15-32
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Introduction: Routing landscape: Ethnographic studies of movement and journeying

    Vergunst, J., Arnason, A.
    Landscape Research, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 147-154
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Individuals and relationships: on the possibilities and impossibilities of presence

    Arnason, A.
    Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines. Davies, D., Park, C. (eds.). Ashgate, pp. 59-70, 12 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Introduction: Landscapes beyond land

    Arnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J., Whitehouse, A. J.
    Landscapes Beyond Land. Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives.. Arnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J., Whitehouse, A. (eds.). Berghahn Books, pp. 1-14, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Landscapes Beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

    Arnason, A. (ed.), Ellison, N. (ed.), Vergunst, J. (ed.), Whitehouse, A. J. (ed.)
    Berghahn Books, Oxford. 216 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Introduction: Difference, culture, society, class

    Árnason, A.
    Anthropology in Action, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 1-2
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Grief paves the way

    Arnason, A.
    Conversations with Landscape. Benediktsson, K., Lund, K. A. (eds.). Ashgate, pp. 79-96, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Comparing Rural Development: Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe

    Vergunst, J. (ed.), Arnason, A. (ed.), Shucksmith, M. (ed.)
    Ashgate, Farnham. 212 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Introduction

    Arnason, A., Nightingale, A., Shucksmith, M., Vergunst, J.
    Comparing Rural Development: Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe. Vergunst, J., Arnason, A., Shucksmith, M. (eds.). Ashgate, pp. 1, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Using environmental resources: Networks in food and landscape

    Vergunst, J., Arnason, A., MacIntyre, R., Nightingale, A.
    Comparing Rural Development: Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe. Árnason, A., Shucksmith, M., Vergunst, J. L. (eds.). Ashgate, pp. 143-169, 27 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Introduction - Comparing Rural Development: Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe

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

  • The theoretical context of bereavement

    Arnason, A.
    Death and dying: the contexts of grief and bereavement. Open University Press, pp. 7-34, 28 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Urbanisation, acceleration and the Modern: Or the arithmetic of gains and losses: a very short ethnography of eternity

    Arnason, A.
    The urban Arctic. Living communities: New Perspectives on Inuit Urban Life. Sejersen, F., Thisted, K., Thuesen, S. (eds.). University of Copenhagen, pp. 63-70, 8 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Death in Iceland, hidden and revealed

    Arnason, A.
    Making sense of death, dying and bereavement: An anthology. Earle, S., Bartholomew, C., Komaromy, C. (eds.). Open University Press, pp. 148-149, 2 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Acceleration Nation: An Investigation into the Violence of Speed and the Uses of Accidents in Iceland

    Arnason, A., Hafsteinsson, S. B., Grétarsdóttir, T.
    Culture, Theory and Critique, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 199-217
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Washing the deceased, labelling the corpse: Preliminary notes on death in Iceland and how to treat a living human being

    Arnason, A., Hafsteinsson, S., Grétarsdóttir, T.
    Global perspectives and local issues: Medical sociology in Northeast Scotland. Yuill, C., van Teijlingen, E. R. (eds.). Robert Gordon University, pp. 49-67
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Networking: social capital and identities in European rural development

    Lee, J., Arnason, A., Nightingale, A., Shucksmith, M.
    Sociologia Ruralis, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 269-283
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • New dawn: death, grief and the 'nation form' in Iceland

    Arnason, A., Hafsteinsson, S. B., Gretarsdottir, T.
    Mortality, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 329-343
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Refractions through culture: the new genomics in Iceland

    Arnason, A., Simpson, B.
    Ethnos, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 533-553
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Letters to the dead: Obituaries and identity, memory and forgetting in Iceland

    Arnason, A., Hafsteinsson, S. B., Grétarsdóttir, T.
    Mortality, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 271-287
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The revival of death: expression, expertise and governmentality

    Arnason, A., Hafsteinsson, S. B.
    The British Journal of Sociology, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 43-62
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Voluntary sector counselling in Scotland: An overview

    Bondi, L., Fewell, J., Kirkwood, C., Arnason, A.
    Edinburgh, United Kingdom: University of Edinburgh
    Books and Reports: Other Reports

  • Menning er máttur

    Arnason, A.
    Ritið, vol. 3, pp. 83-100
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The skills we need: bereavement counselling and governmentality in Britain

    Arnason, A.
    Grief, mourning and death ritual: Facing Death. Hockey, J., Katz, J. S., Small, N. (eds.). Open University Press, pp. 125-134
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Anthropology

    Arnason, A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

  • Experts of the ordinary: Bereavement Counselling in Britain

    Arnason, A.
    Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 699-713
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Biography, bereavement, story

    Arnason, A.
    Mortality, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 189-204
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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