Book
Park: a geographical study of a Lewis crofting district
The University, Department of Geography • Glasgow • Published In 1952 • Pages:
By: Caird, James B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is a brief study of the agricultural practices and potential of a crofting district in southeast Lewis. Park is one of the most isolated and agriculturally poor districts on Lewis. Even after many years of emigration, seasonal and permanent, by a large number of its residents, it remains overcrowded with little ancillary employment to supplement the meager incomes provided by crofts which are too small to be economically practical. The district is described township by township and suggestions for improvements are contained in each section. The monograph's format is similar to 4:Moisley, et. al., but is less detailed. Historic (last 100 years) and demographic data are used frequently.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Maps
- Composition of population
- Internal migration
- External migration
- History
- Tillage
- Land use
- Settlement patterns
- Renting and leasing
- Division of labor by gender
- Occupational specialization
- 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.
- Geographer
- 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 ; Dubravka Schmalzbauer
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1650-1968
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- District of Park, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] James B. Caird and Members of the Geographical Field Group
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Highlands (Scotland)