The life of family trees and the Book of Icelanders

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 21, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 337-367

  Pálsson, Gísli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Commodities; Genealogies; Iceland; Kinship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; ICELAND; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEDIGREE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; ICELAND; PEDIGREE; PUBLIC SECTOR;

EID: 0036632831     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740214078     Document Type: Article

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