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;
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
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
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.
