Gísli Pálsson
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Gísli Pálsson is an Icelandic anthropologist and academic. He is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Iceland, formerly a professor at the University of Oslo.[1]
Gísli Pálsson | |
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Born | (1949-12-22) December 22, 1949 (age 74) |
Nationality | Icelandic |
Occupation(s) | Anthropologist and academic |
Academic background | |
Education | BA., Social Science MA., Social Anthropology Ph.D., Social Anthropology |
Alma mater | University of Iceland University of Manchester |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Iceland |
Pálsson has worked in environmental anthropology, fishing communities, extinction studies, and arctic cultures.[2] He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction (2024), The Human Age: How We Created the Anthropocene Epoch and Caused the Climate Crisis (2020), Anthropology and The New Genetic (2007), and Nature, Culture, and Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Life (2016). He is the recipient of the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science from the University of Miami.[3]
Pálsson is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland[4] and, formerly, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).[5][6] He authored the guest editorial titled "Anthropologies of Extinction" for Anthropology Today in 2023. [7]