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Biogenetics in Iceland

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  1. Gísli Pálsson
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Gísli Pálsson is professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland and the University of Oslo. Among his books areThe Textual Life of Savants (1995),Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives (1996, co-editor),Images of Contemporary Iceland (1996, co-editor), andWriting on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson (2001, editor and introduction).

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Pálsson, G. Biogenetics in Iceland. Soc 40, 20–28 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02712648

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