The Anthropology Of Ireland

Author : Hastings Donnan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100018336X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Ireland written by Hastings Donnan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where and what is Ireland?--What are the identities of the people of Ireland?--How has European Union membership shaped Irish people's lives and interests?--How global is local Ireland?This book argues that such questions can be answered only by understanding everyday aspects of Irish culture and identity. Such understanding is achieved by paying close attention to what people in Ireland themselves say about the radical changes in their lives in the context of wider global transformation. As notions of sex, religion, and politics are radically reworked in an Ireland being re-imagined in ways inconceivable just a generation ago, anthropologists have been at the forefront of recording the results. The first comprehensive book-length introduction to anthropological research on the island as a whole, The Anthropology of Ireland considers the changing place in a changing Ireland of religion, sex, sport, race, dance, young people, the Travellers, St Patrick's Day and much more.

Author : Helena Wulff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1474244149
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhythms of Writing written by Helena Wulff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first anthropological study of writers, writing and contemporary literary culture. Drawing on the flourishing literary scene in Ireland as the basis for her research, Helena Wulff explores the social world of contemporary Irish writers, examining fiction, novels, short stories as well as journalism. Discussing writers such as John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Frank McCourt, Anne Enright, Deirdre Madden, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Colum McCann, David Park, and Joseph O ́Connor, Wulff reveals how the making of a writer's career is built on the 'rhythms of writing': long hours of writing in solitude alternate with public events such as book readings and media appearances. Destined to launch a new field of enquiry, Rhythms of Writing is essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, literary studies, creative writing, cultural studies, and Irish studies.

Author : Olaf Zenker
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857459147
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish/ness Is All Around Us written by Olaf Zenker and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author's theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethnonational conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general.

Author : Earnest Albert Hooton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Physical Anthropology of Ireland written by Earnest Albert Hooton and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Conrad Maynadier Arensberg
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881334012
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish Countryman written by Conrad Maynadier Arensberg and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence J. Taylor
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812215205
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occasions of Faith written by Lawrence J. Taylor and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devotional "occasions" or experiences by Irish Catholics form the crux of this powerful, first book-length anthropological study of Irish Catholicism. Rich in ethnographical material, wide-ranging archival sources, insightful cultural observations, vivid accounts of individual experiences, and thoughtful scrutiny of religious questions and theories illuminate twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork. From these varied resources Lawrence Taylor creates a memorable account of the forces that shape local forms of Catholicism in southwest Donegal.

Author : Diarmuid Ó Giolláin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268102371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Ethnologies written by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays give an overview of the field of Irish ethnology, covering institutional history and methodology, as well as case studies of religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music, and traditional cosmology.

Author : David Slattery
Publisher : Orpen Press
ISBN 13 : 1871305411
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be Irish written by David Slattery and published by Orpen Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the quintessential Irish Mammy to love for all things GAA, the Irish have a particularities – and peculiarities – that make us different from our neighbours. Social anthropologist David Slattery takes us through the rules of being Irish with deadpan humour, from how to approach an Irish wedding or funeral to the Irish attitude to health, business, politics, death, Christmas and being cool. For his research, David canvassed undercover for a major political party during the recent election campaign, attended opportune weddings and funerals, and interviewed doctors, psychiatrists, and a bunch of builders: "I have begged, spied, knocked down my house, got a job, dressed in drag and drank in many pubs – all in the interest of science." A unique popular anthropology book about being Irish, not only will this book prove instructive to the tourist or foreigner who wants to blend in without a fuss, but the Irish will find it interesting as a mirror to how we are.

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224809
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics written by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien

Author : Mairéad Carew
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1788550110
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for the Irish Celt written by Mairéad Carew and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quest for the Irish Celt is the fascinating story of Harvard University’s five-year archaeological research programme in Ireland during the 1930s to determine the racial and cultural heritage of the Irish people. The programme involved country-wide excavations and the examination of prehistoric skulls by physical anthropologists, and was complemented by the physical examinations of thousands of Irish people from across the country; measuring skulls, nose-shape and grade of hair colour. The Harvard scientists’ mission was to determine who the Celts were, what was their racial type, and what element in the present-day population represented the descendants of the earliest inhabitants of the island. Though the Harvard Mission was hugely influential, there were theories of eugenics involved that would shock the modern reader. The main adviser for the archaeology was Adolf Mahr, Nazi and Director of the National Museum (1934–39). The overall project was managed by Earnest A. Hooton, famed Harvard anthropologist, whose theories regarding biological heritage would now be readily condemned for their racism. Mairéad Carew explores this extraordinary archaeological mission, examining its historic importance for Ireland and Irish-America, its landmark findings, and the unseemly activities that lay just beneath the surface.