on 6/2/02 11:47 PM, Rex H. McTyeire at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> The Scots?
>
> At the below link (contact me if you can't gain access and want a copy
> by attachment: about 63 kb in .txt) is a Highland Survey done about
> fifty years ago, on contract from the British Government by Fraser
> Darling (internationally known English naturalist) before he emigrated
> to the US.  The contract was to support timber industry and resource
> problems in the Highlands, but the attitude to the people of the time
> and earlier comes through rather clearly, even under the pen of a
> sympathetic writer.  The document is still in the UK System, and this
> scanned copy (with a dropped word or two) came from the resource
> management offices on the Isle of Skye this year.


Not to mention that 1938 _Antiquity_ classic "The Hebrides: A Cultural
Backwater".

[Curwen, E.C. (1938). "The Hebrides: A Cultural Backwater". _Antiquity_
XII:261-289]

For a more recent Historical Archaeology study of Scotland that might
conceivably be accessible to Susan Piddock (trying to track down literature
in Australia is often a thankless task) try:

Symonds, J. (1999). "Toiling in the Vale of Tears: Everyday Life and
Resistance in South Uist, Outer Hebrides, 1760-1860". _International Journal
of Historical Archaeology_ 3(2):101-122

Note, however, that the Lowland/Highland divide makes Scotland a very
different kettle of fish from conceptions of domination and resistance in
colonial contexts.  There was a dominance/resistance relationship between
the two components of the Scottish state long before the Act of Union or
Culloden.  There's a tendency in popular culture, particularly in N.
America, to either see Scottish history as essentially analogous to the
Irish model or to see Scottish history (in a 200 year old  post-Walter Scot
hangover) as a Highland 'gathering of the Gael'.  Both misconceptions are
worse than simplistic.

Alasdair Brooks



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