Research Catalog

Title

Irish ethnologies / edited by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin.

Publication

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid, 1955-

Description

xiv, 238 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Irish Ethnologies gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology, covering representative topics of institutional history and methodology, as well as case studies dealing with religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music, and traditional cosmology. This collection of essays draws from work in multiple disciplines including but not limited to anthropology and ethnomusicology. These essays, first published in French in the journal Ethnologie française, illuminate the complex history of Ireland and exhibit the maturity of Irish anthropology. Martine Segalen contends that these essays are part of a larger movement that "galvanized the quiet revolution in the domain of the ethnology of France." They did so by making specific examples, in this instance Ireland, inform a larger definition of a European identity. The essays, edited by Ó Giolláin, also significantly explain, expand, and challenge "Irish ethnography." From twelfth-century accounts to Anglo-Irish Romanticism, from topographical surveys to statistical accounts, the statistical and literary descriptions of Ireland and the Irish have prefigured the ethnography of Ireland. This collection of articles on the ethnographic disciplines in Ireland provides an instructive example of how a local anthropology can have lessons for the wider field. This book will interest academics and students of anthropology, folklore studies, history, and Irish Studies, as well as general readers. Contributors: Martine Segalen, Diarmuid o Giollain, Hastings Donnan, Anne Byrne, Pauline Garvey, Adam Drazin, Gearoid o Crualaoich, Joseph Ruane, Ethel Crowley, Dominic Bryan, Helena Wulff, Guy Beiner, Sylvie Muller, and Anthony McCann"--

Uniform Title

Irlande après Arensberg et Ó Duilearga. English.

Subjects

• Ireland
• Ireland > History
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
• History
• HISTORY / Europe / Ireland
• Ethnology > Ireland
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Originally published in French under title: Irlande après Arensberg et Ó Duilearga, as a special edition of Éthnologie française, vol. 41, no. 2 (2011).
• Translated from the French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Re-placing Ireland in Irish anthropology / Hastings Donnan -- Epistolary research relations : correspondences in anthropological research : Arensberg, Kimball, and the Harvard-Irish Survey, 1930/1936 / Anne Byrne -- Ireland's ethnographic horizons / Pauline Garvey and Adam Drazin -- Folkloristic-ethnological studies in Ireland / Gearóid Ó Crualaoich -- Pluralism and silence : Protestants and Catholics in the Republic of Ireland / Joseph Ruane -- The Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS) : the site of a symbolic struggle over knowledge / Ethel Crowley -- From civil rights to carnival : the anthropology of public space in Belfast / Dominic Bryan -- Stories of the soil : in the Irish literary world / Helena Wulff -- Locating local tradition : the sociocultural construction of Irish folk history / Guy Beiner -- The Irish mermaid : man's alliance to woman, nature, and death in a peasant culture / Sylvie Muller -- A tale of two rivers : Riverdance, a river of sound, and the ambiguities of "tradition" / Anthony McCann.

Call Number

JFE 17-10584

ISBN

• 9780268102371
• 0268102376

LCCN

2017024317

OCLC

982091403

Title

Irish ethnologies / edited by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin.

Publisher

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid, 1955- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-10584