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Gaelic proverbial lore in Embo village
Scottish studies • 18 • Published In 1974 • Pages: 117-126
By: Dorian, Nancy C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Gaelic as a language is rapidly disappearing from the Scottish highlands, and given the relative poverty of the Gaelic folk culture as a whole, Dorian has attempted to capture as much of it as possible in the forms of proverbs. Dorian's focus is the village of Embo, near Dornoch in Sutherland, which has remained in the 20th century as one of the '…relic areas for Gaelic speech in the north-east of Scotland' (p. 117). Dorian worked primarily with the Fraser-Ross household in Embo; a family that has enjoyed the reputation of being an uncommonly rich source of proverbial material. In addition to a discussion of the proverbs themselves, the texts of proverbs are presented in both Gaelic and English.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literature
- Literary texts
- 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
- John Beierle ; M. Marcus
- 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)
- Embo village, Sutherland, Scotland (p. 117)
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Nancy Currier Dorian
- Bibliography: p. 126
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Highlands (Scotland)