Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• EPISODE I
• 1 The Book: The ‘Slow’ Process of Historical Analysis
• One man
• My Grandfather and His Way of Approaching Life
• An ante-mortem photograph
• 2 Family Matters: Memory and the Importance of Egodocuments
• At the Homefront
• Events → Narratives → Analysis → New Events
• Milk
• Consensus
• Blazing the Trail – New Cultural Studies
• Short Sigga
• A Clear Vision
• Pose
• EPISODE II
• 3 Soft Spots: A Non-Autobiography
• Foreword
• PART ONE
• 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
• 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
• Sources
• 4 Potential History
• The Environment of Egodocuments
• The Archive – Personal Expression
• The Archive – Definition!
• Heterotopia (Space) – Spaces of Otherness (No-Place)
• Affirmative Humanities
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Index