Writing on Ice The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962), son of Icelandic immigrants in Manitoba and North Dakota, was affiliated with Harvard's Anthropology Department and Peabody Museum. His association with Dartmouth began in 1929, and his later visits laid the foundation for the polar study program formally established in 1953 Gisli Palsson is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Anthropology at the University of Iceland. He has written extensively on such issues as environmental debates, property rights, fishing skills, fieldwork, biotechnology, language, and cognitionStefansson, Vilhjalmur is the author of 'Writing on Ice The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson', published 2001 under ISBN 9781584651192 and ISBN 1584651199.