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Sociocultural change in a Scottish crofting townshipBook 1973 • Parman, Susan
Highland Scots • Europe > British Isles
This dissertation is an anthropological study of Shawbost, a township in northwest Lewis. Shawbost has gone from being '…a relatively self-sufficient economic unit' practicing extensive cultivation of marginal land, to one dependent on the larger soc...General properties of naming, and a specific case of nicknaming in the Scottish Outer Hebridesarticle 1976 • Parman, Susan
Highland Scots • Europe > British Isles
This paper is concerned with the use of formal names, particularly nicknames, as terms of reference rather than address in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. Situational factors which trigger the use of alternative names are discussed. The focus in this re...Scottish croftersBook 1990 • Parman, Susan
Highland Scots • Europe > British Isles
This is a study of the crofting community of Geall (a pseudonym), located on the Isle of Lewis in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, with particular emphasis on its social organization and its relationship to the larger British and European society. Parman...