[lit-ideas] Re: Kilt Studies (Was: Dress Studies)
- From: Harold Hungerford <hh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:52:51 -0800
There is a fascinating discussion of kilts and other artifacts in Hugh
Trevor-Roper's "The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of
Scotland, in Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., *The Invention of
Tradition*, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pages 15-41. The
quick-and-dirty: "The creation of an independent Highland tradition,
and the imposition of that new tradition, with its outward badges, on
the whole Scottish nation, was the work of the later eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries" (p. 16). For lots more on Rawlinson, see
pp. 21-22.
Harold Hungerford
Santa Rosa, CA
(a quarter Scots despite the name)
On Nov 16, 2004, at 11:32 AM, David Ritchie wrote:
> on 11/16/04 9:29 AM, David Ritchie at ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Thomas Rawlinson etc.
>
> I was looking to see whether or not Thomas Rawlinson, Englishman of
> Invergarry and Tyndrum, made swords. I found no answer. But I did
> come
> across the website below. All that typing, and here's someone who
> wrote a
> nuanced version of Scottish part of the tale, sans typos and with a
> bibliography.
>
> Ah what a tangled mess results
> when we forget first the web to consult
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/
> makhist9_prog1c.sht
> ml
>
>
> David Ritchie
> Portland, Oregon
>
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