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The Mother Town Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland

by Gwen Kennedy Neville

  • ISBN: 9780195090321
  • ISBN10: 0195090322

The Mother Town Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland

by Gwen Kennedy Neville

  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
  • Publish date: 04/01/1994
  • ISBN: 9780195090321
  • ISBN10: 0195090322
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Description: "No one brings anthropology 'home' quite like Neville. The Mother Town is full of insight and provocative thoughts about the deeper structures of community and individual in the West."--Jon Anderson, Catholic University of America "Thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating reading that will prove to be an important contribution to the symbolism of cultural identity in civic ritual."--Pamela R. Frese, College of Wooster "Grounded in meticulous fieldwork, Dr. Neville's compelling study of the Common Riding ceremony both deciphers and engages in what she calls 'skirmishes for meanings.' These skirmishes make visible the complex processes that construct the cultural scripts for individuals as they are incorporated in a town with its integral medieval-modern socioeconomic structures. Of equal interest to literary critics as to anthropologists, Dr. Neville's elegant presentation opens a wealth of theoretical vistas without ever losing sight of the concrete particularities of the central ritual and the historical continuities and discontinuities it embodies."--Lore Metzger, Emory University, Emeritus "Dr. Neville writes clearly and vividly. Her descriptions are immediate and colorful and her interpretations incisive yet compassionate. She says important things about aging, going away and coming home, towns, classes, community, history, and Scotland as part of a European pattern."--James Peacock, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Through the ritual detail of the Common Riding of the Border Towns of Scotland, Dr. Neville explores the emergence of the individual citizen from the corporate medieval world, and the mediating role of the Mother Town in this transition in Western European Protestant culture. Moving between various levels of discourse (an 'ethnological collage'), Dr. Neville alternates beautifully written 'thick description' with clear and penetrating social analysis. The book points out that the 'town' is a social product of a certain historical, cultural, and economic moment. What I especially like about this book is that it deals with a ritual form from English-speaking Europe. It, thus, serves a mediating role for the dominant American culture that assumes that only Others have a rich ritual life."--Carrie B. Douglass, Mary Baldwin College
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