Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village

By Susan Parman

Book Overview

SCOTTISH CROFTERS: A HISTORICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF A CELTIC VILLAGE focuses on Geall, a community in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. With an understanding gained from an intimate, long-term relationship with Scotland, things Scottish, and the people of the community, the author describes Geall as a human community and places it in the wider cultural, historical, economic, and sociopolitical contexts of maintaining relationships to Scotland, England and Europe. The book emphasizes the way symbols are used to interpret elements of the culture such as economy, power, mental illness, and religion by exploring the significant symbols associated with the state, the mechanisms for integrating community and state, and how people define leaders and social role.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534633242
• ISBN13: 9780534633240
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good Book

The first couple of chapters of the book are a little slow and seems, in some spots, to be a simplified overview of the rest of the book. Naturally this is also not a book for casual reading. I gather someone must be realivly interested in either Scottish culture, or just foreign culture in general to get through this book. For me, both types of interest apply. I found the author's style of writing easy to read and her experience genuine and unbias. Keep in mind that this is only Scottish culture as it happens on a remote island. Scottish culture, on the mainland, as the author touches on, is somewhat different than her writing in this book.