Author: Jarvie, Grant
Title: Highland Games: The Making of the Myth (Edinburgh Education & Society Series)
Description: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Soft Cover. This is the first attempt to put the colourful Scottish Highland Games into a sociological, historical and cultural context. Often dismissed as just an eccentric summer spectacle the Games are shown to have played an important role in Scottish history and in the building of modern Scottish cultural identity. In this book Grant Jarvie criticises British social theorists who have omitted Scotland from any discussion of sport and culture and attempts to provide the first scholarly analysis of Scotlands unique sporting traditions. He examines the folk origins of the Highland Games and asks why their popularity exploded after 1840. The problems facing modern Highland Gatherings and the relationships between the Gatherings and other social groups such as the clans, absentee landlords and emigre societies are all described in full. The social history of the sport is then firmly related to Scottish dependency, cultural identity and social development. This is a valuable sociological study of the role of sport int he shaping of a cultural identity. 120p; As original in illustrated front card cover. Book VG clean and tight without marks or signatures.See scans. (ISBN: 0748602445).. Very Good

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