Irish Ethnologies

<p><i>Irish Ethnologies</i> gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology covering representative topics of institutional history and methodology as well as case studies dealing with religion ethnicity memory development folk music and traditional cosmology. This collection of essays draws from work in multiple disciplines including but not limited to anthropology and ethnomusicology.</p><p>These essays first published in French in the journal <i>Ethnologie française</i> illuminate the complex history of Ireland and exhibit the maturity of Irish anthropology. Martine Segalen contends that these essays are part of a larger movement that galvanized the quiet revolution in the domain of the ethnology of France. They did so by making specific examples in this instance Ireland inform a larger definition of a European identity. The essays edited by Ó Giolláin also significantly explain expand and challenge Irish ethnography. From twelfth-century accounts to Anglo-Irish Romanticism from topographical surveys to statistical accounts the statistical and literary descriptions of Ireland and the Irish have prefigured the ethnography of Ireland. This collection of articles on the ethnographic disciplines in Ireland provides an instructive example of how a local anthropology can have lessons for the wider field.</p><p>This book will interest academics and students of anthropology folklore studies history and Irish Studies as well as general readers.</p><p>Contributors: Martine Segalen Diarmuid Ó Giolláin Hastings Donnan Anne Byrne Pauline Garvey Adam Drazin Gearóid Ó Crualaoich Joseph Ruane Ethel Crowley Dominic Bryan Helena Wulff Guy Beiner Sylvie Muller and Anthony McCann.</p>