Prelude
Abstract Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by all your gear, alone on a subarctic coast, while the bus which has dropped you drives away on the dirt road out of sight, and you stand there like a misplaced Malinowski, whose ‘arrival story’ from tropical Trobrianders (1922: 4) I am here ad...
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Oxford University PressOxford
1998
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233800.003.0001 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52494959/isbn-9780198233800-book-part-1.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by all your gear, alone on a subarctic coast, while the bus which has dropped you drives away on the dirt road out of sight, and you stand there like a misplaced Malinowski, whose ‘arrival story’ from tropical Trobrianders (1922: 4) I am here adapting to my own experience of arriving at one of my Icelandic fieldsites, a farm situated on a narrow strip of farm land on the south-eastern coast of Iceland. |
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