Title Reimagining culture : histories, identities, and the Gaelic renaissance / Sharon Macdonald

Published Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1997

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	941.182 Mac/Rch		AVAILABLE

Description xix, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series Berg ethnicity and identity series, 1354-3628 Berg ethnic identities series. Contents 1. A Quest for Culture: On Anthropology, Authenticity and Ambivalence -- 2. Our Language, Our Heritage: Imagining Gaelic Culture -- 3. The Crofting Community: Land, Religion and the Formation of the Highland People -- 4. A Way of Life: Crofting, Tradition and People -- 5. Being Part of the Place: On Belonging -- 6. The Last Bastion: The Highland Churches -- 7. From Strength to Strength: Community Revival -- 8. Saving the Gaelic: Language Revival and Identity -- 9. Reflections on Reimagining Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and indexes Subject Community life -- Scotland -- Skye, Island of. Community life -- Scotland -- Skye Scottish Gaelic language -- Social aspects -- Scotland -- Skye, Island of. Group identity -- Scotland -- Skye, Island of. Group identity -- Scotland -- Skye Scottish Gaelic language -- Dialects -- Scotland -- Skye, Island of. Scottish Gaelic language -- Social aspects -- Scotland -- Skye Skye (Scotland) -- Civilization Skye, Island of (Scotland) -- Civilization. Skye, Island of (Scotland) -- Social life and customs. LC no. 98115323 ISBN 1859739806 (cloth) 1859739857 (paper)

  Permalink