Irish Ethnologies

\u000a_Irish Ethnologies_ 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.\u000a \u000aThese essays, first published in French in the journal _Ethnologie fran\u00e7aise_, 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 \u00d3 Gioll\u00e1in, 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.\u000a \u000aThis book will interest academics and students of anthropology, folklore studies, history, and Irish Studies, as well as general readers.\u000a \u000aContributors: Martine Segalen, Diarmuid \u00d3 Gioll\u00e1in, Hastings Donnan, Anne Byrne, Pauline Garvey, Adam Drazin, Gear\u00f3id \u00d3 Crualaoich, Joseph Ruane, Ethel Crowley, Dominic Bryan, Helena Wulff, Guy Beiner, Sylvie Muller, and Anthony McCann.\u000a