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A substitute name system in the Scottish highlands
American anthropologist • 72 • Published In 1970 • Pages: 303-319
By: Dorian, Nancy C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article examines the incidence and cultural use of 'by-names' among Gaelic speakers in East Sutherland. Since there are a limited number of surnames in the communities studied, the use of 'by-names' has arisen in order to permit greater specificity than would be possible by the use of given or proper names. Some of the 'by-names' are offensive and are used only in limited social contexts. Dorian examines not only the assignment of 'by-names', but also the social contexts in which the uses of 'by-names' are appropriate.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personal names
- 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.
- Linguist
- 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
- Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1968
- 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)
- Villages of Embo, Brora, and Golspie; eastern county Sutherland, Scotland
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Nancy Currier Dorian
- Bibliography: p. 319-B
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Highlands (Scotland)