Gísli Pálsson

Gísli Pálsson is an Icelandic anthropologist and academic. He is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Iceland, formerly a professor at the University of Oslo.

Pálsson has worked in environmental anthropology, fishing communities, extinction studies, and arctic cultures. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including ''The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction'' (2024), ''The Human Age: How We Created the Anthropocene Epoch and Caused the Climate Crisis'' (2020), ''Anthropology and The New Genetic'' (2007), and ''Nature, Culture, and Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Life'' (2016). He is the recipient of the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science from the University of Miami.

Pálsson is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and, formerly, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS). He authored the guest editorial titled "Anthropologies of Extinction" for ''Anthropology Today'' in 2023. Provided by Wikipedia