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Chapters: Faroe Islands National Football Team, Culture of the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islands National Under-21 Football Team, Faroe Islands Football Association. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Faroe Islands national football team is the national football team of Faroe Islands and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association. It is considered one of the weakest members of UEFA and has never advanced to the finals of any major international competition, although it has made credible progress in the last few years. The Faroe Islands gained membership of FIFA and UEFA in 1988. Although the national team has been in existence since 1930, neither FIFA nor the Faroese FA considers matches before 1988 as official. Faroe Islands pulled one of the biggest upsets in footballing history when they beat Austria 1-0 in their first ever competitive international on 12 September 1990. The game, a Euro 92 qualifier, was played in Landskrona, Sweden because there were no grass fields on the Islands. (Their only other point of the campaign was from a draw against Northern Ireland.) During both the Euro 2000 qualifiers and Euro 2004 qualifiers, they also held Scotland to a draw at home (they also drew with Lithuania and Bosnia in 2000, while the draw against the Scots was their only point of the 2004 campaign). The nation's only other wins in European Championship qualifying are in the 1996 tournament, against San Marino. The team has participated in FIFA World Cup qualifying since 1992. They finished the qualification rounds for the 1994 finals without scoring any points and having 1-38 goal difference from 10 matches. In qualification for the 1998 finals, they improved their record with two victories against Malta, beating them 2-1 in both matches...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1011425 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Marine Fisheries Review, published by Superintendent Of Documents on September 22, 1989. The length of the article is 1033 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Salmon culture in the Faroe Islands. (Faeroe Islands) (Foreign Fishery Developments)
Publication: Marine Fisheries Review (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1989
Publisher: Superintendent Of Documents
Volume: v51Issue: n4Page: p43(2)

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This study follows the process of nation-building in a tiny nation - the Faroe Islands, a cluster of 18 rocky islands in the North Atlantic. Originally settled by Vikings and governed by Norway, then by Denmark, and occupied by British forces during World War II, the Faroes gained a measure of home rule in 1948. Since then, Faroese politics have been doctrinated by the struggle for emancipation from the Danish cultural hegemony, through the establishment of cultural and education institutions on the islands, and through the promotion of the Faroese language in place of Danish.As the author shows, the national identity has developed in interaction with an outside world often perceived as hostile and threatening by the islanders, and in this process, certain national symbols have played a key role as boundary markers. Apart from language, the practice of pilot whale hunting has served as an important focus of national identity, and international criticism of whaling in general has only served to intensify the Faroese feeling of unity and opposition to an outside world which does not understand them. ... Read more

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Chapters: Whaling in the Faroe Islands. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Whaling in the Faroe Islands has been practiced since about the time of the first Norse settlements on the islands. It is regulated by Faroese authorities but not by the International Whaling Commission as there are disagreements about the Commission's competency for small cetaceans. Around 950 Long-finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melaena) are killed annually, mainly during the summer. The hunts, called "grindadráp" in Faroese, are non-commercial and are organized on a community level; anyone can participate. The hunters first surround the pilot whales with a wide semicircle of boats. The boats then drive the pilot whales slowly into a bay or to the bottom of a fjord. Most Faroese consider the hunt an important part of their culture and history. Animal-rights groups criticize the hunt as being cruel and unnecessary, while the hunters claim in return that most journalists do not exhibit sufficient knowledge of the catch methods or its economic significance. As of the end of November 2008 the chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption because of the levels of toxins in the whales. Whale hunting has been a common phenomenon for a long period of time. It is known to have existed on Iceland, in the Hebrides, and in Shetland and Orkney. Archaeological evidence from the early Norse settlement of the Faroe Islands c. 1200 years ago, in the form of pilot whale bones found in household remains in Gøta, indicates that the pilot whale has long had a central place in the everyday life of Faroe Islanders. The meat and blubber of the pilot whale has been an important part of the islanders staple diet. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=647843 ... Read more

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Faroe Islands has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 714 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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Serious academic views of a far away place
Europe's many international soccer tournaments see some phenomenalmismatches, as when Russia plays Andorra, for example, or when Germanyplays San Marino.But I've always found the Faroe Islands team thebravest.Imagine a country of 40,000 people taking on countries of 50million or more !They do it every year.There's only one stadium thatmeets FIFA standards.Other than in soccer, though, you'd have to admitthat news about the Faroe Islands is "slightly" sparse.How many people gothere, how many people know much about this group of islands in the NorthAtlantic more or less between Norway and Iceland ?I was certainly one whoknew almost nothing.THE RING OF DANCERS was published in 1981.At thetime, judging from the no doubt-comprehensive bibliography in this volume,there were possibly two books in English on the Faroes, with a couple moremimeographed articles or studies in obscure places.There was also aNational Geographic article in 1970.That was it.

Unfortunately thisbook will not be a satisfactory source of general information for mostreaders.It is meant for specialists---for those interested primarily inthe anthropology of Scandinavia.The amount of detail is tremendous inthree out of four chapters, much more than can be absorbed by readers whodo not have a professional interest in the Faroes.Chapter Two explores avery interesting problem---how people refer to compass directions and howthis relates to a general geographic conception of their land.In NewEngland, people commonly say "over to" Salem, "into Boston" or "up toBoston" but "down to Maine", to name a few examples.The Faroese patternis far more intricate, but who can remember the details of all this in anunknown language ?Geertz' "Local Knowledge" (1983) comes to mind.Chapter Three is an analysis of a Cinderella-like folktale which supposedlyreveals much about 19th century Faroe society and the changes it wasundergoing.I was not entirely convinced, but the attempt was interesting. Because we readers are plunged right into these analyses without anybackground, everything remains on the level of "Yeah ?Really ?Well,maybe, I guess....."

Chapter Four is about the development of the Faroeselanguage---yes, OK---but it was only Chapter Five that grabbed myattention, both on the descriptive level---it's about sporadic pilot whalehunts when up to a thousand whales can be massacred on the beaches followedby night-long celebrations with dancing and drinking---and on theanalytical level---the author used Geertz' Balinese cockfight article as arough model.This chapter and the short interviews of Faroeseintellectuals that followed were what saved the book for me. Inshort, if you are looking for a readable introduction to the Faroes, thisis not it, though there are some tantalizingly fascinating parts.If youare a student of Anthropology or a professional, you can definitely findsome interesting material here, though if you are unfamiliar withScandinavia, you still may be left with quite a number of questions. ... Read more