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Burial and mourning customs in a Hebridean community
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland • 85 • Published In 1955 • Pages: 119-130
By: Vallee, Frank G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes communal rituals associated with death on the island of Barra. Sentiments of 'belonging together' and their manifestation by families and religious sects, are discussed and analyzed as representing certain key aspects of social structure on the island.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Community structure
- Old age dependency
- Life and death
- Dying
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Mortuary specialists
- Religious denominations
- 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
- article
- 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
- M. A. Marcus
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- 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)
- Islands of Barra and Vatersay, southernmost of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] F. G. Vallee
- Bibliography: p. 130
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Highlands (Scotland)