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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Birdwell-Pheasant, Donna
Title:
The home "place": center and periphery in Irish house and
family systems
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
House life: space, place and family in Europe, edited by
Donna Birdwell-Pheasant and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga
Published By: Original publisher
House life: space, place and family in Europe, edited by
Donna Birdwell-Pheasant and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga
Oxford ; New York: Berg. 1999. 105-129 p. ill.,
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By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Donna Birdwell-Pheasant
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2016. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Rural Irish (ER06)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Tillage (241);
Dwellings (342);
Settlement patterns (361);
Real property (423);
Inheritance (428);
Status, role, and prestige (554);
Household (592);
Extended families (596);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study of rural Ireland house systems, the author
claims that land was not the ruling symbol in the Irish mentality; rather it was family and
place, as shown in an examination of ancient legal tracts. Documents from the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries from one region in County Kerry reveal a diversity of house and
settlement types. Under English law the loss of security in customary land tenure shifted
the nexus of identity away from land and towards the family, leading to land fragmentation
and "ephemeral" housing, and undermining the balance between population and resources, with
disastrous consequences during the Great Famine. Additionally, the author provides a
comparison between the types and quality of housing in the post-famine and modern
periods.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
39
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
er06-039
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references(p. 126-129)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1986
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Ethnographer-4,5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Ian Skoggard; 2014
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1700-1990
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Ballyduff area, County Kerry, Munster,
Ireland
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Ireland--Rural conditions
