Book
Sociocultural change in a Scottish crofting township
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1973 • Pages:
By: Parman, Susan.
Abstract
This dissertation is an anthropological study of Shawbost, a township in northwest Lewis. Shawbost has gone from being '…a relatively self-sufficient economic unit' practicing extensive cultivation of marginal land, to one dependent on the larger society for goods and services (p. 185). The township is viewed as a 'social boundary system,' whose institutions maintain its distinctiveness from British society to which it is so indispensably tied. The importance of both the church and liquor as foci of social groups is discussed. Fishing, crofting, and weaving are viewed as strategies ('occupational pluralism') to cope with the economic instability of the island. Personal histories compose a major source of the data. There is also information on interpersonal relations.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1995
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- British Isles
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Martin Malone ; John Beierle
- Field Date
- 1970-1971
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Shawbost, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Scotland
- Notes
- Susan Morrissett Parman
- UM 72-26,459
- Includes bibliography
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Rice University, 1972
- LCSH
- Highlands (Scotland)