Gísli Pálsson

Gísli Pálsson (born 1949 Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland) is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland.[1] He is the author, editor, or co-editor of several books, including Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of V. Stefansson (2001), The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn (1995), and Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives. He has published a biography of one of the first people of colour to live in Iceland, Hans Jonatan.[2]

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Gísli.


Gísli was awarded the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami in 2000. He is a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

References
  1. Staff (1970-01-01). "Gisli Palsson | University of Iceland - Academia.edu". Hi.academia.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  2. Palsson, Gisli (2016). The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan. University of Chicago Press.
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