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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Fox, Robin, 1934-
Title:
The Tory Islanders: a people of the Celtic fringe
Published By: Original publisher
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 1995. xxxiii,
210 p. ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Robin Fox
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
Population (161);
External migration (167);
Traditional history (173);
History (175);
Marine industries (228);
Real property (423);
Inheritance (428);
Labor supply and employment (464);
Cooperative organization (474);
Boats (501);
Personal names (551);
Regulation of marriage (582);
Residence (591);
Family relationships (593);
Kinship terminology (601);
Kin relationships (602);
Rule of descent (611);
Kindreds and ramages (612);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of a tight-knit island community of a few
hundred people. The author examines the relationship between the cognatic kinship system
and land tenure. He also looks at the organization of the fishing industry in its heyday,
again focusing on the role of kinship in the ownership of boats and recruitment of labor.
By cross-referencing land registers and genealogical charts, he reveals how rights to land
are shared and allocated to households. The labor demands of fishing required drawing on a
wide pool of kin, including second cousins and in-laws. Most boats were collectively owned
with crew members having shares. Ownership arrangements changed with the introduction of
power boats that required smaller crews but a larger capital investment. Unique to the
island is the number of married couples who live in separate households, but eat meals
together. This unusual arrangement is attributed to various factors, including the late age
of marriage, a strong sibling bond, and community endogamy with in-laws living close to
each other.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
18
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.
er06-018
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Reprint. Previously published: Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 1978 Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-203) and
index
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1963-1965
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).
1760-1965
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Tory Island, County Donegal, Ulster,
Ireland
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Ethnology--Ireland--Tory Island// Celts--Ireland--Tory Island//
Civilization, Celtic//Tory Island (Ireland)--Social life and customs
