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Gísli Pálsson is a Icelandic Anthropologist, born in 1949 in Vestmannaeyjar Iceland. He was a professor at the University of Iceland until his retirement in 2019, where he now hold a Professor Emeritus in the Anthropology department in the University of Iceland. He has published works in the fields of Social anthropology and Environmental Anthropology.

His focus in the field of Anthropology is Ethnography, mainly relating to Genomic Anthropology.

Life
Gísli Pálsson was born 1949 in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Gísli.

Genomic Anthropology
Gísli Pálsson is an anthropologist who focuses specifically on Genomic Anthropology. Genomic Anthropology is also referred to as Molecular Anthropology. According to Pálsson Genomic Anthropology is used "to denote a hybrid field that increasingly involves anthropologists in the fusion of the “social” and the “biological” in the wake of genomic studies." Genomic Anthropology is used in Anthropology as a way to expand the knowledge of the variations of Human genomes. Genomic Anthropology for anthropologists can be used to explain human variation and has been used in DNA profiling in forensics. Gísli Pálsson's work relating to Genomic Anthropology has been focusing on Inuit populations in Nunavut and Greenland, as well as Icelandic populations.

Academics
Gísli Pálsson was a professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland. He celebrated his retirement in 2019. His main field of focus in Anthropology was environmental and social anthropology. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of several books, including a biography of one of the first people of colour to live in Iceland, Hans Jonatan.

Fellowships
Gísli Pálsson has been awarded a fellowship for the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He is also a Fellow of the European Association of Social Anthropology.

Gísli was awarded the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami in 2000. He has been awarded the Vinson Sutlive Book Prize in Historical Anthropology which had been awarded to him by the College of William and Mary in 2018. He is a member (fellow) of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He is also a member of the European Association of Social Anthropology. He has been awarded the Vinson Sutlive Book Prize in Historical Anthropology which had been awarded to him by the College of William and Mary in 2018. He was a Scientific committee member for the European Association of Social Anthropologists for the 10th EASA Biennial Conference: Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2008.

Works
Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of V. Stefansson (2001)

The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn (1995)

Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives.

Social and Cultural Anthropology Key Concepts (2014)

Making Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture (2013)

Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation, and Anthropological Discourse (1994).

Enskilment of the sea (1994)

Reconceptiualizing the 'Anthrops' in the Anthropocene: Intergrating the Social sciences and Humanities in Global environmental change research (2013)

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