Scottish Customs: From The Cradle To The Grave
by Margaret Bennett
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Author: Margaret BennettEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-03-30
ISBN: 184158293X
Number of pages: 340
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
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Book Review: Everyman's glimpse into Scottish Customs
Summary: 5 Stars
Through this anthology Margaret Bennett brings the reader a very human and engaging glimpse into scottish traditions and customs gleaned from writings dating back to the sixteenth century, through to a collection of memories and experiences recorded in the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
As an Australian with a Scottish heritage, and the family historian, this extremely readable volume puts a background, a context and a human face on the customs and manners that sometime in the eighteenth century followed our family - and indeed many foundation families - to a new country. For the historian and for the general reader, this enjoyable and well considered work provides some "aha" moments as the reader recognises the influence of ancient customs, superstitions and wisdoms on how we still celebrate the important moments of our lives "from the cradle to the grave". A very worthwhile book.
Summary of Scottish Customs: From The Cradle To The Grave
A highly readable and absorbing anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage, Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave draws upon a broad range of literary and oral sources. Scotland has been fortunate to have written accounts of intrepid early travellers such as Martin Martin, Edward Burt and John Lane Buchanan, and extracts from their writing are found alongside modern interviews made by Margaret Bennett and researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University. This expanded edition includes a large amount of new material. The result is a detailed and comprehensive picture of social behaviour in Scotland over the last 400 years. The book is divided into three sections, each covering a stage in the cycle of life: Childbirth and infancy; Love, courtship and marriage; Death The first edition was originally published by Polygon and was joint runner-up of the 1993 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.England Books
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