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Castles, lochs, seascapes. Coastal Scotland is one of the world's
most romanticized tourist destinations, yet it is in the midst of
severe economic decline. The North Atlantic fisheries crisis has
hit Scottish communities hard and local fisherfolk are faced with
chronic insecurity, anxiety over the decline of fishing and doubts
about their cultural survival. The decline of this traditional
industry has been accompanied by growing tourism along Scottish
shores. Fishing villages are marketed for tourist consumption and
culture has become a commodity.
Drawing upon fieldwork, novels, folk music and travel literature,
Nadel-Klein explores how these influences have affected locals'
sense of identity and presence within a modern European nation. How
is identity linked to power? What role do memory and authenticity
play in the creation of Scottish heritage? How do locals feel about
the onslaught of tourists? The topical nature of these issues and
their relevance to other regions facing similar tensions make this
book an important contribution to contemporary anthropology.
Castles, lochs, seascapes. Coastal Scotland is one of the world's
most romanticized tourist destinations, yet it is in the midst of
severe economic decline. The North Atlantic fisheries crisis has
hit Scottish communities hard and local fisherfolk are faced with
chronic insecurity, anxiety over the decline of fishing and doubts
about their cultural survival. The decline of this traditional
industry has been accompanied by growing tourism along Scottish
shores. Fishing villages are marketed for tourist consumption and
culture has become a commodity.
Drawing upon fieldwork, novels, folk music and travel literature,
Nadel-Klein explores how these influences have affected locals'
sense of identity and presence within a modern European nation. How
is identity linked to power? What role do memory and authenticity
play in the creation of Scottish heritage? How do locals feel about
the onslaught of tourists? The topical nature of these issues and
their relevance to other regions facing similar tensions make this
book an important contribution to contemporary anthropology.
Focusing on issues of empathy and mutuality, and self and other, as
experienced in the everyday challenges of doing
participant-observation fieldwork, this volume makes a significant
contribution to rethinking the experiential and conceptual
construction of the field. The contributors adopt a critical and
self reflexive approach that goes beyond issues of voice and
representation raised by early postmodern anthropology, to grapple
with issues concerning the nature of knowledge transmission that
lie at the very heart of the ethnographic effort. They explore how
multiple modes of attending, awareness and sense making can shape
the ethnographic process. Of note are those unanticipated, less
palpable forms of communication that are peripheral to or transcend
more formalized and structured research methods and agendas. Among
these are empathy, intuition, somatic modes of attention and/or
embodied knowledge and identification, as well as, shared sensory
experiences and aesthetics. By the elaboration of such concepts the
volume as a whole offers a substantial elaboration of a
phenomenological approach.
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