Transatlantic Scots - Softcover

Hunter, James

 
9780817352400: Transatlantic Scots
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0817352406 ISBN 13: 9780817352400
Verlag: University Alabama Press, 2005

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Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritage

During the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland games and gatherings annually take place across the U.S. and Canada.


Transatlantic Scots is a multidisciplinary collection that studies the regional organization and varied expressions of the Scottish Heritage movement in the Canadian Maritimes, the Great Lakes, New England, and the American South. From diverse perspectives, authorities in their fields consider the modeling of a Scottish identity that distances heritage celebrants from prevalent visions of whiteness. Considering both hyphenated Scots who celebrate centuries-old transmission of Scottish traditions and those for whom claiming or re-claiming a Scottish identity is recent and voluntary, this book also examines how diaspora themes and Highland imagery repeatedly surface in regional public celebrations and how traditions are continually reinvented through the accumulation of myths. The underlying theoretical message is that ethnicity and heritage survive because of the flexibility of history and tradition.


This work is a lasting contribution to the study of ethnicity and identity, the renegotiation of history and cultural memory into heritage, and the public performance and creation of tradition.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Celeste Ray is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. She is the author of Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South and editor of Southern Heritage on Display: Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism.

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Transatlantic Scots is a multidisciplinary collection that studies the regional organization and varied expressions of the Scottish Heritage movement in the Canadian Maritimes, the Great Lakes, New England, and the American South. From diverse perspectives, authorities in their fields consider the modeling of a Scottish identity that distances heritage celebrants from prevalent visions of whiteness. Considering both hyphenated Scots who celebrate centuries-old transmission of Scottish traditions and those for whom claiming or re-claiming a Scottish identity is recent and voluntary, this book also examines how diaspora themes and Highland imagery repeatedly surface in regional public celebrations and how traditions are continually reinvented through the accumulation of myths. The underlying theoretical message is that ethnicity and heritage survive because of the flexibility of history and tradition.  

"A first-generation study of this key phenomenon.  Its innovative and contemporary analysis fills a gaping hole within the broad core continuum of circum-Atlantic ethnicity and makes a major contribution to the study of transnational heritage and cultural memory. Words like vigorous, rare, and convergent describe this book."--Martha Ward, University of New Orleans

"Transatlantic Scots is a sophisticated theoretical treatment written in a lively and readable style. . . . This is a terrific collection."--Sydel Silverman, City University of New York

Celeste Ray is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. She is the author ofHighland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South and editor of Southern Heritage on Display: Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism.James Hunter, a freelance writer and historian, is the author of several books, includingCulloden and the Last Clansmen.

With Contributions By: Paul Basu, Margaret Bennett, Edward J. Cowan, Jonathan Dembling, Andrew Hook, Grant Jarvie, Colin McArthur, John W. Sheets, Michael Vance
 

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Verlag
University Alabama Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0817352406
ISBN 13 
9780817352400
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
381
Herausgeber
Ray Celeste
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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