ABSTRACT: Does there exist a distinct Icelandic ethnic identity in contemporary Canada? To what degree is it similar and to what degree is it different from the traditional Icelandic national identity? Referring to poetry, telepathic messages andworks of scholarship, aswell as interviewswith Canadians of Icelandic origin, this paper tackles these questions. A special emphasis is placed on what Herbert J. Gans has defined as “ethnic symbols, ” such as linguistic ethnic markers, ceremonial holidays and ethnic food. Some of these symbols, in particular the pastry known as “vínarterta”, suggest not only how different Icelandic ethnic identity in Canada is from Icelandic national ethnicity, but they also reveal the dire necessity for it to be so...
The late rise of the previously undervalued migrant trunk, or "koffort" within Icelandic-Canadian po...
This thesis reports the findings of a study that explored Icelandic lyricists’ choice of language, E...
fessor of history at the University of Iceland, specializing in European social and intel-lectual hi...
Canada is a multicultural country composed of more than 200 ethnicities, including Icelandic-Canadia...
This dissertation uses the Icelandic-Canadian community to discuss alternate media and the productio...
In this essay I will examine the first contact between the Icelandic immigrants who settled the west...
Permission for reuse in WinnSpace was granted by the publisher.The Icelandic community in Manitoba c...
cultural identityItalian Canadiansreligionsymbolismethnic affiliationEthnic affiliation continues to...
In this paper I wish to express some general thoughts about our always uneasy relationship to the pa...
ABSTRACT: This article delves into the cultural identity of the Orkney Islands by examining the narr...
Unpublished. Revised version of « De la généalogie à la génétique. Enjeux et contradictions de l’ide...
In Icelandic the word menning (culture) does not exist in the plural form – yet at the same time Ice...
As Dorais (1994) has indicated, the distinction between the concepts of cultural and ethnic identiti...
My paper is a study of the sixty year history of the inukshuk’s cultural appropriations from humanoi...
This thesis explores the motifs of national identity, imagined communities, and anti-Jewish sentimen...
The late rise of the previously undervalued migrant trunk, or "koffort" within Icelandic-Canadian po...
This thesis reports the findings of a study that explored Icelandic lyricists’ choice of language, E...
fessor of history at the University of Iceland, specializing in European social and intel-lectual hi...
Canada is a multicultural country composed of more than 200 ethnicities, including Icelandic-Canadia...
This dissertation uses the Icelandic-Canadian community to discuss alternate media and the productio...
In this essay I will examine the first contact between the Icelandic immigrants who settled the west...
Permission for reuse in WinnSpace was granted by the publisher.The Icelandic community in Manitoba c...
cultural identityItalian Canadiansreligionsymbolismethnic affiliationEthnic affiliation continues to...
In this paper I wish to express some general thoughts about our always uneasy relationship to the pa...
ABSTRACT: This article delves into the cultural identity of the Orkney Islands by examining the narr...
Unpublished. Revised version of « De la généalogie à la génétique. Enjeux et contradictions de l’ide...
In Icelandic the word menning (culture) does not exist in the plural form – yet at the same time Ice...
As Dorais (1994) has indicated, the distinction between the concepts of cultural and ethnic identiti...
My paper is a study of the sixty year history of the inukshuk’s cultural appropriations from humanoi...
This thesis explores the motifs of national identity, imagined communities, and anti-Jewish sentimen...
The late rise of the previously undervalued migrant trunk, or "koffort" within Icelandic-Canadian po...
This thesis reports the findings of a study that explored Icelandic lyricists’ choice of language, E...
fessor of history at the University of Iceland, specializing in European social and intel-lectual hi...