1st Edition
Archaeology and the Narratives of Iceland’s Past Materializing the Nation
1. Introduction; 2. Iceland and the Word: Language, Sagas, and Icelandic Nationalism; 3. Iceland’s National Home and the Discourse of Civilisation; 4. Turf house semantics and the surge of modernity; 5. Decolonising the Manuscripts: Nationalism, Colonialism and the Social Biography of Objects; 6. Naming Places, Writing History: the role of Place Names in Forging the Icelandic National Identity; 7. Memories of a Nation: Icelandic exceptionalism and the Second World War
Biography
Angelos Parigoris holds a BA in Archaeology, an MA in Theoretical Archaeology, and a Diploma in Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Wales, Lampeter. He earned his PhD from the University of Iceland, focusing on material culture, nationalism, and colonialism. Parigoris is a sessional teacher at the University of Iceland, where he has taught courses in archaeological methodology, theoretical archaeology, gender archaeology, and theories in the humanities. His research examines how archaeology shapes national identity and deconstructs nationalist narratives, with a particular focus on the role of material culture in historical discourse.
