1st Edition
Archive, Slow Ideology and Egodocuments as Microhistorical Autobiography Potential History
Episode I
1. The Book – The "Slow" Process of Historical Analysis
My Grandfather and His Way of Approaching Life
2. Family Matters – Memory and the Importance of Egodocuments
At the Homefront
Events -> Narratives -> Analysis -> New Events
Blazing the Trail – New Cultural Studies
A Clear Vision
Episode II
3. Soft Spots – A Non-Autobiography
Foreword
Part One
24 November 1938
Past Times
Love-Brandur (Guðbrandur Jónsson)
Poet and Friend (Símon Dalaskáld and Gvendur dúllari)
Little Viggi (Little Viggi)
Skólavarða Hilltop (Bensi of Rein)
Déjà-vu (Dabbi of Nes)
European Bourgeoisie (Þórarinn of Melur)
Business (Norwegian Óli)
King of the Plains (Skipper Oddur and King Christian X)
Rat-Petersen (Rat-Petersen)
Show (unidentified)
My Family, My Youth
Relative (Eyjólfur Pálsson)
Speed (unidentified)
Óli Maggadon (Óli Maggadon)
Benjamin Franklin (Jón saddle)
Watching (Trippa-Gísli)
Materials (Gunna of Hjálmsstaðir)
Joy (unidentified)
Upright (unidentified)
Fatigue (Jóhann ‘the Giant’)
Brother (Einar Jochumsson and Ingimundur fiddle Sveinsson)
Pennsylvania
Call of the Wild (Björn Mouse-eye from Eyjafjörður)
A Place in the Landscape (Mangi of Árbær)
Social Disability (Brynki of Hólmur)
Celebration (Jón Mustard)
PTL (Bogga the bread-saleswoman)
Shadow (Haukur Guðmundsson)
Part Two
24 November 1993
Back Home
Workhorse (Guðjón the watchsmith)
Two Friends (Gvendur and Ásmundur)
Uphill (Gunna of Hjálmsstaðir)
Painting (Guðmundur Árnason of Akranes)
Measurements (Gunnar Salómonsson)
Campaign (Óli prammi)
Capital (Sæfinnur with sixteen shoes)
September Day (Short Bjarni)
Into Another Mind
Question and Answer Session with a Representative of the People (Gísli, member of parliament for Bolungarvík)
Thought (Óli gossari)
Poet Tómas Guðmundsson Describes a Man (Ingimundur fiddle and his wife)
Health (Óli prammi)
List of Assets (Vilhjálmur Th., father of goldsmithery )
Aviation (Þorsteinn uxi)
Thirst for Life (Eyjólfur ljóstollur)
Different Times
Soapbox Orator (Sigurður Sveinbjörnsson)
Condensed Word of God (Sigurður Sigvaldason)
Balancing Act (Jón Mustard)
Metamorphosis? (Símon Dalaskáld)
Chain (Eyjólfur of Grímslækur)
Calm? (Gvendur dúllari)
Paradise Lost (Sigurður Sveinbjörnsson)
On Vacation (unidentified)
Afterword
24 November 2000
Sources
4. Potential History
The Environment of Egodocuments
The Archive – Personal Expression
The Archive – Definition!
Heterotopia (Space) – Spaces of Otherness (No-Place)
Affirmative Humanities
Biography
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon is Professor of Cultural History and chair of the Department of History at the University of Iceland. He is also chair of the Center for Microhistorical Research.
