Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary.

Autorentext

Justin Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer in Writing and Anthropology at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. His main research interests are experimental ethnography, ethnographic writing, abandoned places, economic anthropology, and the anthropology of islands. He conducts research in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Newfoundland, and Micronesia. He is the author of a novel, Wyomings (2018), along with a number of scholarly articles and book chapters.

Inhalt

1. Arriving: An Introduction to Island Anthropology

2. Wave Glossary: To and From Yap

3. On Becoming an Ethnographic Ghost in the Faroe Islands

4. Newfoundland: A Place Apart

5. Iceland I: New Old Dreamworlds

6. Iceland II: Come-From-Away

7. Phantom Islands: Shorelines Without Water

8. Hauntological Islands

9. A Conclusion by Means of Describing Certain Lessons That Islands Have Taught Me