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  • Transatlantic Scots

    Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritageDuring the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland games and gatherings annually take place across the U.S. and Canada.Transatlantic Scots is a multidisciplinary ... Leer más

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  • Highland Heritage

    Scottish Americans in the American South

    de Celeste Ray ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Southern Heritage on Display

    Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism

    How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American SouthW. J. Cash's 1941 observation that “there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them” is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its “lost cause” tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, ... Leer más

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  • Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes

    Interlacing varied approaches within Historical Ecology, this volume offers new routes to researching and understanding human–environmental interactions and the heterarchical power relations that shape both socioecological change and resilience over time. Historical Ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of ... Leer más

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  • Sacred Waters

    A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

    Edición de Celeste Ray ...
    Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life’s most basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites, and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos, rites and supermundane forces, freshwater sources have also been ... Leer más

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  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 6: Ethnicity

    Series Libro 6 - The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    Transcending familiar categories of “black” and “white,” this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of “southernness” by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the ways people perform and maintain cultural identities through folklore, religious faith, dress, music, ... Leer más

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  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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  • A History of the World in 100 Objects

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  • A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Revised Edition)

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  • Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

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