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Irish Ethnologies
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Irish Ethnologies gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology, covering representative topics of institutional history and methodology, as well as case studies dealing with religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music, and traditional cosmology. This collection of essays draws from work in multiple disciplines including but not limited to anthropology and ethnomusicology.
These essays, first published in French in the journal Ethnologie française, illuminate the complex history of Ireland and exhibit the maturity of Irish anthropology. Martine Segalen contends that these essays are part of a larger movement that "galvanized the quiet revolution in the domain of the ethnology of France." They did so by making specific examples, in this instance Ireland, inform a larger definition of a European identity. The essays, edited by Ó Giolláin, also significantly explain, expand, and challenge "Irish ethnography." From twelfth-century accounts to Anglo-Irish Romanticism, from topographical surveys to statistical accounts, the statistical and literary descriptions of Ireland and the Irish have prefigured the ethnography of Ireland. This collection of articles on the ethnographic disciplines in Ireland provides an instructive example of how a local anthropology can have lessons for the wider field.
This book will interest academics and students of anthropology, folklore studies, history, and Irish Studies, as well as general readers.
Contributors: Martine Segalen, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Hastings Donnan, Anne Byrne, Pauline Garvey, Adam Drazin, Gearóid Ó Crualaoich, Joseph Ruane, Ethel Crowley, Dominic Bryan, Helena Wulff, Guy Beiner, Sylvie Muller, and Anthony McCann.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Irish Ethnologies
- Re-Placing Ireland in Irish Anthropology
- Epistolary Research Relations: Correspondences in Anthropological Research: Arensberg, Kimball, and the Harvard-Irish Survey, 1930–1936
- Ireland’s Ethnographic Horizons
- Folkloristic-Ethnological Studies in Ireland
- Pluralism and Silence: Protestants and Catholics in the Republic of Ireland
- The Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS): The Site of a Symbolic Struggle over Knowledge
- From Civil Rights to Carnival: The Anthropology of Public Space in Belfast
- Stories of the Soil: In the Irish Literary World
- Locating Local Tradition: The Sociocultural Construction of Irish Folk History
- The Irish Mermaid: Man’s Alliance to Woman, Nature, and Death in a Peasant Culture
- A Tale of Two Rivers: Riverdance, A River of Sound, and the Ambiguities of “Tradition”
- List of Contributors
- Index