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Cornish Studies Volume 17

By Philip Payton

Cornish Studies Volume 17
Paperback, 232 pages £14.99
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9780859898492
Format: 229mm x 150mm
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Subjects: Cornish Studies, South-West Studies


The seventeenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.






Contributions by
Gemma Goodman, Jesse Harasta, Philip Hayward, Rachel Hunt, Kerryn Husk, Alan M. Kent, Ronald Perry, Adrian Rodda, Helen Small, Charles Thurlow, Garry Tregidga, Shelley Trower and Joanie Willett


The latest volume in the acclaimed series of "Cornish Studies" addresses issues of 'sustainability' and the china-clay country of mid-Cornwall, including articles on landscape, literature, archaeology, political culture, and sustainable communities, as well as wider comparative discussions on access to Higher Education in Cornwall, contemporary Cornish music, St Piran and the cult of the saints, and issues of authenticity at Cornish heritage sites.



"The outcome and intention has been to place Cornwall squarely in new debates about the nature of "Britishness" and the territorial identities." reviewed in Western Morning News



"Cornish Studies is a real gem among the serial publications dedicated to regional studies, and this volume confirms once again its status as a significant contribution to the field of European ethnology and ethnography. One of only a few genuinely multi- and inter-disciplinary series to combine academic rigour with accessibility to a wide readership - thanks to the careful editing by Philip Payton - it contains an important collection of articles which, while maintaining the focus on Cornwall, is of wide comparative relevance in a European context, and indeed beyond. Unafraid of crossing disciplinary boundaries and bringing into close contact academic fields that elsewhere may jealously guard their respective fiefdoms, this series presents European ethnology (in the sense the term was originally intended) at its best". Ullrich Kockel, Professor of Ethnology and Folk Life, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster



Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University's Cornwall campus. He is also the author of A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (UEP, 2005, paperback 2007), Making Moonta: The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall' (UEP, 2007) and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish.




Publication Details:


Binding:
 Paperback , 232 pages
ISBN:
 9780859898492
Format:
 229mm x 150mm

BIC Code:
 HB, HBJD1, HBLL, HBLW, HBTB, HBTK, JH, KNSG, WQH
Imprint:
 University of Exeter Press


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