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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Wilson, Thomas M., 1951-
Title:
Culture and class among the "large" farmers of eastern
Ireland
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
American ethnologist -- Vol. 15, no. 4
Published By: Original publisher
American ethnologist -- Vol. 15, no. 4
Washington, D.C.: American Ethnological Society. 1988.
678-693 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Thomas M. Wilson
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
Domesticated animals (231);
Tillage (241);
Real property (423);
Inheritance (428);
Classes (565);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, the author focuses on Ireland's large
commercial farmers, the "big men" of County Meath, a county with the greatest number of
cattle, the most fertile land, the largest farms and the richest farmers in Ireland. Since
the eighteenth century it has sold fattened beef to Dublin, Britain and, after 1973, the
European Common Market. Catholic and middle class, Meath farmers were skilled agricultural
workers and former tenants who purchased land when the gentry left the country after the
First World War. The farmers soon came to dominate the local economy and politics. They own
or rent the best land, control the cattle trade, serve as merchants and cattle agents, and
run the farmers' cooperatives, organizations, and livestock marts. The largest landowners
are the few remaining descendants of the Protestant Ascendancy class. The author identifies
a third class of Catholic agricultural laborers and discusses the sociocultural world and
the politics of each class.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
26
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.
er06-026
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 691-693)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1976-1987
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
Ethnologist-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).
1973-1986
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
County Meath, Leinster, Ireland
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Ireland--Rural conditions