Donegal's Changing Traditions: An Ethnographic Study

by Eugenia Shanklin

Overview

First Published in 1985. One of the notable objectives of the Library of Anthropology is to provide a vehicle for the expression in print of new, controversial, and seemingly unorthodox theoretical, methodological, and philosophical approaches to anthropological data. This is a book about traditions that are changing, not languishing in a moribund state and not dead, as other scholars have suggested, but changing to fit present circumstances. Since many people think of traditions as static or immutable, the author’s assertion that traditions are changing may strike readers as paradoxical, but this book deals with a paradoxical people, the Irish of Southwest Donegal, who simultaneously guard and manipulate their traditions: guarding them against the encroachments of the modern world and manipulating them for their own advantage in that world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782881240010
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1985
Series:	The Library of Anthropology , #8
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction A. The Setting B. Tradition in Anthropological Theory C. Tradition in Southwest Donegal 2. The Distant Past: Continuities in Recorded History 3. The Recent Past: Discontinuities in Recorded History 4. The Verifiable Present: Sample Findings 5. Voices of the Present: Five Farmers and Two Historians 6. Conclusions