BA, MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer
- About
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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 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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The theoretical context of bereavement
Death and dying: the contexts of grief and bereavement. Open University Press, pp. 7-34, 28 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersUrbanisation, acceleration and the Modern: Or the arithmetic of gains and losses: a very short ethnography of eternity
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 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDeath in Iceland, hidden and revealed
Making sense of death, dying and bereavement: An anthology. Earle, S., Bartholomew, C., Komaromy, C. (eds.). Open University Press, pp. 148-149, 2 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAcceleration Nation: An Investigation into the Violence of Speed and the Uses of Accidents in Iceland
Culture, Theory and Critique, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 199-217Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14735780701723314
Washing the deceased, labelling the corpse: Preliminary notes on death in Iceland and how to treat a living human being
Global perspectives and local issues: Medical sociology in Northeast Scotland. Yuill, C., van Teijlingen, E. R. (eds.). Robert Gordon University, pp. 49-67Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersNetworking: social capital and identities in European rural development
Sociologia Ruralis, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 269-283Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9523.2005.00305.x
New dawn: death, grief and the 'nation form' in Iceland
Mortality, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 329-343Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13576270412331329830
Refractions through culture: the new genomics in Iceland
Ethnos, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 533-553Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0014184032000160550
Letters to the dead: Obituaries and identity, memory and forgetting in Iceland
Mortality, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 271-287Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13576270310001599812
The revival of death: expression, expertise and governmentality
The British Journal of Sociology, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 43-62Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0007131032000045897
