1st Edition

Donegal's Changing Traditions An Ethnographic Study

By Eugenia Shanklin Copyright 1985
256 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

Eugenia Shanklin