Highland Homecomings : Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9781844721276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str.

Paul Basu

Opis

Examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness. This work tracks journeys between imagined homelands and physical landscapes and presents an argument that through th

Spis treści

Prologue: Other Landscapes  1. Introduction  2. An Itinerant Anthropology  3. Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora: An Overview  4. Imagineering Home  5. Home Spaces, Homepages, Homelands  6. ‘Be of this Land’  7. Sites of Memory, Sources of Identity  8. Homecomings  9. Exiles and Emigrants: Negotiating the Moralities of Migrant Family Histories  10. Heuristic Journeys 

O autorze

Paul Basu