Book
The Tory Islanders: a people of the Celtic fringe
University of Notre Dame Press • Notre Dame • Published In 1995 • Pages:
By: Fox, Robin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of a tight-knit island community of a few hundred people. The author examines the relationship between the cognatic kinship system and land tenure. He also looks at the organization of the fishing industry in its heyday, again focusing on the role of kinship in the ownership of boats and recruitment of labor. By cross-referencing land registers and genealogical charts, he reveals how rights to land are shared and allocated to households. The labor demands of fishing required drawing on a wide pool of kin, including second cousins and in-laws. Most boats were collectively owned with crew members having shares. Ownership arrangements changed with the introduction of power boats that required smaller crews but a larger capital investment. Unique to the island is the number of married couples who live in separate households, but eat meals together. This unusual arrangement is attributed to various factors, including the late age of marriage, a strong sibling bond, and community endogamy with in-laws living close to each other.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- External migration
- Traditional history
- History
- Marine industries
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Labor supply and employment
- Cooperative organization
- Boats
- Personal names
- Regulation of marriage
- Residence
- Family relationships
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Rule of descent
- Kindreds and ramages
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rural Irish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- British Isles
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1760-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tory Island, County Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robin Fox
- Reprint. Previously published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1978
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-203) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94044604
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Ireland--Tory Island
- Celts--Ireland--Tory Island
- Civilization, Celtic
- Tory Island (Ireland)--Social life and customs