1st Edition
Fishing for Heritage Modernity and Loss along the Scottish Coast
By Jane Nadel-Klein
Copyright 2003
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Castles, lochs, seascapes. Coastal Scotland is one of the world's most romanticized tourist destinations, yet it is in the midst of severe economic decline. The North Atlantic fisheries crisis has hit Scottish communities hard and local fisherfolk are faced with chronic insecurity, anxiety over the decline of fishing and doubts about their cultural survival. The decline of this traditional... Read more
ContentsAcknowledgements1 Archetypes, Fantasies and Ethnographic Destinations.................12 Stigma and Separation: Fisherfolk as a "Race Apart".................383 Fisher Lassies: Gender, Stereotypes and Marginality..................904 Ferryden: Place, Power and Identity...........................................1605 Perpetual Crisis and the Making of the Fisherfolk.....................2366 Fisherfolk under Glass? Memory and the Heritage Wars ..........298Afterword: Scotland in the General and the Particular .................370Bibliography...................................................................................376Index
Biography
Jane Nadel-Klein Associate Professor of Anthropology,Trinity College, Hartford
"Although Fishing for Heritage is a scholarly book, it still remains accessible to its subjects, should be required reading for those involved with the heritage industry, and can be recommended to anyone else with an interest in Scotland's past and future. - Sara Marsh, Times Literary Supplement An important contribution to contemporary anthropology and especially for Scottish studies. - The Scots Magazine Industrial Archaeologists and heritage professionals should take note of 'Fishing for Hertiage' as a valuable study of dogged cultural survival in industrial communities and the role of sites and artifacts in the local consciousness and sense of identity. - Industrial Archaeology Journal Jane Nadel-Klein has produced a book about the fisherfolk of the east coast of Scotland that is very informative and is truly well worth reading. - Peter Bruce Honarary Life Member Buckie District Fishing Heritage Museum"
