Description
Book SynopsisThis is the eighteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series...the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
Trade Review
"The outcome and intention has been to place Cornwall squarely in new debates about the nature of "Britishness" and the territorial identities." (Western Morning News)
"Cornish Studies is a real gem among the serial publications dedicated to regional studies, and this volume confirms once again its status as a significant contribution to the field of European ethnology and ethnography. One of only a few genuinely multi- and inter-disciplinary series to combine academic rigour with accessibility to a wide readership - thanks to the careful editing by Philip Payton - it contains an important collection of articles which, while maintaining the focus on Cornwall, is of wide comparative relevance in a European context, and indeed beyond. Unafraid of crossing disciplinary boundaries and bringing into close contact academic fields that elsewhere may jealously guard their respective fiefdoms, this series presents European ethnology (in the sense the term was originally intended) at its best". (Ullrich Kockel, Professor of Ethnology and Folk Life, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster)"
Table of Contents
Introduction;
1. Mining the Data: What can a Quantitative Approach tell us about the Micro-Geography of Nineteenth-Century Cornish mining?, Bernard Deacon
2. South Crofty and the Regeneration of Pool: National Agenda v Cornish Ethnicity?, Richard Harris
3. When is a NIMBY not a NIMBY: The case of the St Dennis Anti-Incinerator Group, Jon Cope
4. Meanings of Cornishness: A Study of Contemporary Cornish Identity, Robert Dickinson
5. Imagining the Swimming: Discourses of Modernity, Identity and Nationhood in the Annual Swimming Matches in Late Victorian Cornwall, Geoffrey Swallow
6. Cornish Folklore: Context and Opportunity, Ronald M. James
7. Bucca Redivivus: History, Folklore and the Construction of Ethnic Identity within Modern Pagan Witchcraft in Cornwall, Jason Semmens
8. The Stage of the Nation in Medieval Cornwall, Eleanor Lavan
9. The Preterite in Cornish, Nicholas J.A. Williams
10. The Three Epitaphs of Dolly Pentreath, Matthew Spriggs and Richard Gendall
Notes on Contributors
