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Highland homecomings : genealogy and heritage tourism in the Scottish diaspora
Author
Title
Highland homecomings : genealogy and heritage tourism in the Scottish diaspora / Paul Basu.
ISBN
0203945506
1135391904
1135391947
1135391955
6610738939
9780203945506
9781135391904
9781135391942
9781135391959
9786610738939
1844721272
1844721280
9781844721276
9781844721283
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness. With an interdisciplinary approach, speaking to current themes in anthropology, archaeology, history, historical geography, cultural studies, migration studies, tourism studies, Scottish studies, Paul Basu explores the journeys made to the Scottish Highlands and Islands to undertake genealogical research and seek out ancestral sites. Using an innovative method.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Basu, Paul. Highland homecomings. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
chapter 2 An itinerant anthropology
chapter 3 Genealogy and heritage tourism in the Scottish diaspora: an overview
chapter 4 Imagineering home
chapter 5 Home spaces, homep., homelands
chapter 6 Clanlands
chapter 7 Sites of memory, sources of identity
chapter 8 Homecomings
chapter 9 Exiles and emigrants: Negotiating the moralities of migrant family histories
chapter 10 Heuristic journeys.
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