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Olaf Zenker - Irish/ness Is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland - 9780857459138 - 9780857459138
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Irish/ness Is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland

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Description for Irish/ness Is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland Hardback. Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of "Irish culture" in the domains of language, music, dance, and sports. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 348 pages, 7 figs & tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; GTJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.

Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author’s theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Integration and Conflict Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857459138
SKU
9780857459138
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About Olaf Zenker
Olaf Zenker is Junior Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. He received his PhD from the Martin Luther University and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, and obtained his habilitation from the University of Bern, Switzerland. His publications include the co-edited volume Beyond Writing Culture: Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational ... Read more

Reviews for Irish/ness Is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland
“While the structure of the book is sometimes heavy, it remains rich in insights and shows theoretical flair. It will be of interest to people who want to know how Irish revitalists navigate ethnicity in Northern Ireland. The methodology is thorough, placing the experiences of the participants in conversation with social structures. Certainly, the theoretical contributions will be of interest ... Read more

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