Valdimar Tr. Hafstein
…now has a personal profile at http://nordicspaces.se/researchers/valdimar-hafstein/
contributors
Associate professor (docent) of Folkloristics/Ethnology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Iceland. Member of the Nordic Spaces in the North and North America project.
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein
Associate professor (docent) of Folkloristics/Ethnology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Iceland. His research interests range from regimes of cultural heritage to intellectual property regimes and from contemporary folklore to museum history. In recent years he has published numerous articles and edited volumes on cultural heritage as concept, discourse, and policy and on the paradoxical relationship between copyright and folklore. His study of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage is forthcoming in a monograph (University of Illinois Press).
Main publications
“Culture and Property. An Introduction” (co-authored with Regina Bendix), Ethnologia Europaea. Journal of European Ethnology 39:2, 2009. Special issued co-edited with Regina Bendix.
-“Collectivity by Culture Squared. Cultural Heritage in Nordic Spaces”, Arv: Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 2009.
-“Intangible Heritage as a List: From Masterpieces to Representation”, in Intangible Heritage. Ed. L. Smith and N. Akagawa. London: Routledge, 2009.
-“Claiming Culture: Intangible Heritage Inc., Folklore©, Traditional Knowledge™”, in Prädikat „Heritage“. Ed. D. Hemme, M. Tauschek, and R. Bendix. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2007.
-“Spectacular Reproduction: Ron’s Angels and Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of ART (assisted reproductive technology)”, Journal of Medical Humanities 28(1), 2007.
-“The Politics of Origins. Collective Creation Revisited”, Journal of American Folklore 117 (#465), 2004.