Author: the South in Sewanee, Tennessee,
Title: Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American south.
Description: Chapel Hill, Univ N. Carolina Press, (2001). 1st ptg. VG PB. "Carefully researched and well-written ethnographic study adds to our understanding of our Scots at home and abroad, but also. of the process of ritual itself and the ways that immigrants everywhere symbolize, enact, and reinvent their cultural worlds." Gwen Kennedy Neville The author explores how Highland Games and Gatherings 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, what it means to be Scottish in America.

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