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Heritage, Diaspora and the Consumption of Culture Movements in Irish Landscapes
260 Pages
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Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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Using an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework this book examines the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration relationships from the medieval period through to the contemporary post-Celtic Tiger era. With attention to people’s different uses of social space, relationships with and memories of the landscape, as well as their symbolic expressions of diasporic... Read more
Heritage, Diaspora and the Consumption of Culture
Biography
Diane Nititham is a professor of sociology at Murray State University, USA. She specialises in migration, diaspora, and transnational communities, and is the author of Making Home in Diasporic Communities.
Rebecca Boyd is an archaeologist specialising in the Viking world, the development of towns in non-Roman Europe and the archaeology of the household
’This work is a collection of very interesting, imaginative, and sometimes fascinating, interdisciplinary essays that range widely over the varied temporal and spatial aspects of the Irish Diaspora, from Viking Dublin to the Celtic Tiger in Collapse.’ Kerby A. Miller, University of Missouri, USA 'Nititham and Boyd’s text does much to push the boundaries of Irish migratory studies. Material culture scholars will be impressed by its array of approaches ... The goals of Heritage, Diaspora and the Consumption of Culture ultimately are methodological, and, in challenging its readers to rethink a standard narrative, it is a success.' H-Net Reviews
