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Peripheral people and places: an archaeologyof isolation
- Author(s):
- Emma Dwyer (see profile)
- Date:
- 2009
- Group(s):
- Archaeology
- Subject(s):
- Archaeology
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Historical Archaeology
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6947Z
- Abstract:
- This chapter explores the creation of a narrative of ‘isolation’ between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on the presentation of rural communities in Scotland, Wales and Ireland as passive and isolated from the cut and thrust of the metropolis. This narrative trope can be found in examples of travel writing and ethnography dating from the period 1750–1950, but is also apparent in more recent archaeological texts. Narratives of isolation can be fluid and can be manipulated. The ‘stories’ told in travel literature change over time, depending on the identities and motives of the groups involved; indeed, the value of travel accounts lies not so much in the ethnographic documentation of their subjects as in what they tell us about the motives of the people writing them.
- Notes:
- Peripheral people and places: an archaeology of isolation in N Brannon & A Horning (eds.) 2009, 'Ireland and Britain in the Atlantic World', Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group (Wordwell Books)
- Metadata:
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- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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