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Up-helly-aa : custom, culture, and community in Shetland

Title
Up-helly-aa : custom, culture, and community in Shetland / Callum G. Brown.
Author
Brown, Callum G., 1953-
Publication
Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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Description
xiii, 219 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm
Subject
  • Winter festivals > Scotland > Shetland
  • Winter festivals > Scotland > Lerwick
  • Manners and customs
  • Winter festivals
  • Fest
  • Brauch
  • Geschichte 1625-1998
  • Shetland (Scotland) > Social life and customs
  • Lerwick (Scotland) > Social life and customs
  • Scotland > Lerwick
  • Scotland > Shetland
  • Shetlandinseln
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The festival of Up-helly-aa in the 1990s. Festival, geography and the calendar. Festival and community. History and community -- 2. Understanding custom. The folklorists. The historians. Festivals and theories -- 3. Misrule without custom: Lerwick 1625-1800. Leir-vik (Norn: 'mud bay'). Moral culture. Smuggling and outsiders. Culture without custom -- 4. Mischief and misrule at Yule, 1800-72. The rise of 'mischief' as custom. Policing the revels. Religion and respectability. Mischief as misrule -- 5. 'Perfectly in custom': the birth of Up-helly-aa, 1873-1906. The turning point. Rough and respectable. Symbols and ideologies -- 6. Twentieth-century festival. Moral politics and the decline of 'Herringopolis', 1906-70.
ISBN
  • 0719053323
  • 9780719053320
  • 1901341070
  • 9781901341072
LCCN
98054612
OCLC
  • ocm40501299
  • 40501299
  • SCSB-1218767
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library