Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South - Softcover

Ray, Celeste

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807849138 ISBN 13: 9780807849132

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001

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Book by Ray Celeste

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"Celeste Ray's sensitive, thorough research examines two centuries of history and myth....Anyone who cares about Scottish culture, heritage, and tourism must read her book." - Margaret Bennett, Glasgow University School of Scottish Studies"

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Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland Gaelic identity that did not come to characterize that nation until long after the ancestors of many Scottish Americans had left Scotland.

Ray explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish Americans in the South. Blending the objectivity of the anthropologist with respect for the people she studies, she asks how and why we use memories of our ancestral pasts to provide a sense of identity and community in the present. In so doing, she offers an original and insightful examination of what it means to be Scottish in America.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0807849138
• ISBN 13: 9780807849132
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278