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Highland Homecomings: Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora
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Product Description
The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #684342 in Books
- Published on: 2006-12-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
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From the Back Cover
Family history research, or genealogy, has become one of the world’s most popular pastimes. The migratory experience of modernity has spurred a contemporary quest to discover our roots and origins. Meanwhile, the associated practice of ‘roots tourism’ has become a burgeoning phenomenon.
Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterised by mobility and rootlessness. People of Scottish descent are dispersed throughout the world: Paul Basu explores the journeys they make to the Scottish Highlands and Islands to undertake genealogical research and seek out sites associated with their ancestors. He argues that through these genealogical journeys, individuals are able to construct meaningful self-narratives from the ambiguities of their diasporic migrant histories, and so recover a more secure sense of home and self-identity.
About the Author
University of Sussex, UK
