The anthropology of Ireland / Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Thomas M., 1951-

Contributor:

Donnan, Hastings.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Irish.

Ireland--Civilization.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Anthropology Ireland : identity, voice and invention

Locating the anthropology of Ireland

Controlling bodies

Ireland's 'other(ing)' economies

Re-presenting 'Irishness'

Frontier tales and the politics of emplacement

Transnational and global Ireland

Ethnographic experience and engagement in the anthropology of Ireland.

Notes:

"First published 2006 by Berg Publishers."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781003086840

1003086845

9781000189995

1000189996

9781000183368

100018336X

9781474215619

1474215610

9781847883230

1847883230

OCLC:

290552256