Book
Sociocultural change in a Scottish crofting township
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1973 • Pages:
By: Parman, Susan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 society for goods and services (p. 185). The township is viewed as a 'social boundary system,' whose institutions maintain its distinctiveness from British society to which it is so indispensably tied. The importance of both the church and liquor as foci of social groups is discussed. Fishing, crofting, and weaving are viewed as strategies ('occupational pluralism') to cope with the economic instability of the island. Personal histories compose a major source of the data. There is also information on interpersonal relations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- History
- Sociocultural trends
- Pastoral activities
- Alcoholic beverages
- Textile industries
- Real property
- Marriage
- Community structure
- Territorial hierarchy
- Towns
- Death
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Highland Scots
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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
- Martin Malone ; John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Shawbost, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Scotland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Susan Morrissett Parman
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Rice University, 1972
- UM 72-26,459
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Highlands (Scotland)