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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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: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137391919_10
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: https://doi.org/10.5604/20842937.1131971
Introduction: Routing landscape: Ethnographic studies of movement and journeying
Landscape Research, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 147-154Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIndividuals and relationships: on the possibilities and impossibilities of presence
Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines. Davies, D., Park, C. (eds.). Ashgate, pp. 59-70, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Introduction: Landscapes beyond land
Landscapes Beyond Land. Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives.. Arnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J., Whitehouse, A. (eds.). Berghahn Books, pp. 1-14, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersLandscapes Beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives
Berghahn Books, Oxford. 216 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Introduction: Difference, culture, society, class
Anthropology in Action, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 1-2Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2011.180201
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Grief paves the way
Conversations with Landscape. Benediktsson, K., Lund, K. A. (eds.). Ashgate, pp. 79-96, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersComparing Rural Development: Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe
Ashgate, Farnham. 212 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315259727
Introduction: Comparing Rural Development
Comparing Rural Development: Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe. Vergunst, J., Arnason, A., Shucksmith, M. (eds.). Ashgate, pp. 1, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
