Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village

by Susan Parman

Book Overview

SCOTTISH CROFTERS: A HISTORICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF A CELTIC VILLAGE focuses on Geall, a community in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. With an understanding gained from an intimate, long-term relationship with Scotland, things Scottish, and the people of the community, the author describes Geall as a human community and places it in the wider cultural, historical, economic, and sociopolitical contexts of maintaining relationships to Scotland, England and Europe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534633242
• ISBN13: 9780534633240
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good Book

The first couple of chapters of the book are a little slow and seems, in some spots, to be a simplified overview of the rest of the book. Naturally this is also not a book for casual reading. I gather someone must be realivly interested in either Scottish culture, or just foreign culture in general to get through this book. For me, both types of interest apply. I found the author's style of writing easy to read and her experience genuine and unbias. Keep in mind that this is only Scottish culture as it happens on a remote island. Scottish culture, on the mainland, as the author touches on, is somewhat different than her writing in this book.