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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
ORCiD

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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  • 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: Comparing Rural Development

    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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