Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather
Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other
locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and
Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics,
Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies
in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes,
however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a
Highland Gaelic identity that did not come to characterize that
nation until long after the ancestors of many Scottish Americans
had left Scotland.
Ray explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with
southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of
commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish
Americans in the South. Blending the objectivity of the
anthropologist with respect for the people she studies, she asks
how and why we use memories of our ancestral pasts to provide a
sense of identity and community in the present. In so doing, she
offers an original and insightful examination of what it means to
be Scottish in America.
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