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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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
Voluntary sector counselling in Scotland: An overview
Edinburgh, United Kingdom: University of EdinburghBooks and Reports: Other ReportsMenning er máttur
Ritið, vol. 3, pp. 83-100Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe skills we need: bereavement counselling and governmentality in Britain
Grief, mourning and death ritual: Facing Death. Hockey, J., Katz, J. S., Small, N. (eds.). Open University Press, pp. 125-134Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAnthropology
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesExperts of the ordinary: Bereavement Counselling in Britain
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 699-713Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.00064
Biography, bereavement, story
Mortality, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 189-204Contributions to Journals: Articles
