Jane Nadel-Klein

Fishing for Heritage

Modernity and Loss along the Scottish Coast

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Coastal Scotland is one of the world's most romanticized tourist destinations, yet it is in the midst of severe economic decline. Drawing upon fieldwork, novels, folk music and travel literature, Nadel-Klein explores how these influences have affected locals' sense of identity.

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Castles, lochs, seascapes. Coastal Scotland is one of the world's most romanticized tourist destinations, yet it is in the midst of severe economic decline.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 146mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781859735626
• ISBN-10: 1859735622
• Artikelnr.: 21763226

Autorenporträt

Jane Nadel-Klein Associate Professor of Anthropology,Trinity College, Hartford

Inhaltsangabe

ContentsAcknowledgements1 Archetypes, Fantasies and Ethnographic
Destinations.................12 Stigma and Separation: Fisherfolk as a
"Race Apart".................383 Fisher Lassies: Gender, Stereotypes and
Marginality..................904 Ferryden: Place, Power and
Identity...........................................1605 Perpetual Crisis
and the Making of the Fisherfolk.....................2366 Fisherfolk under
Glass? Memory and the Heritage Wars ..........298Afterword: Scotland in the
General and the Particular
.................370Bibliography...................................................................................376Index