{"product_id":"packy-jim-folklore-and-worldview-on-the-irish-border-9780299308940","title":"Packy Jim  Folklore and Worldview on the Irish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up on a secluded smuggling route along the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic, Packy Jim McGrath regularly heard the news, songs, and stories of men and women who stopped to pass the time. In his early years, he was all ears - now it is his turn to talk. His stories reveal an worldview that is both idiosyncratic and shared, and offer a window into Irish vernacular culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSkillfully presents and analyzes stories naturally emerging from conversation and expressing a worldview that is both communal and formed by unique life experience. ... Highly recommended.\"\"  - \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Draws on interviews with Packy Jim McGrath, a Donegal storyteller who grew up on a smuggling route on the border of the Republic and Northern Ireland.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Octogenarian bachelor Packy Jim emerges here as both typical and singular, a barometer of continuity and change. McGrath's resilience, dignity, and strong sense of self manifest clearly in his stories, which locate him both in the technological consumerist future and in the primordial self-sufficient past. Ray Cashman's sharp and sympathetic observation delivers a classic ethnography that stakes a major claim for folkloristic studies as cutting-edge humanities research.\"\" - Lillis  Laoire,National University of Ireland–Galway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A brilliant testament to the ethnographer's art, the deeply rooted wisdom of an 'ordinary' person, and the complex ways in which folklore figures in everyday life along the Irish border.\"\"  - James P. Leary, author of \u003ci\u003eFolksongs of Another America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface: Packy Jim Is Your Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on Language\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Using Tradition, Constructing a Self\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Person and Place, Life and Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Authority and Rules\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Power and Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Place, History, and Morality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Place, the Supernatural, and Cosmology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 Belief and Skepticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 Community in a World of Limited Good\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 Worldview\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword: Real Folklore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: Transcription Style\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes on the Recitations, Songs, and Traditional Stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes on the Chapters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternational Motif Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMigratory Legend Type Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379695583575,"sku":"9780299308940","price":18.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780299308940.jpg?v=1754319973","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/packy-jim-folklore-and-worldview-on-the-irish-border-9780299308940","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}