Thesis
Living the liminal: facilitating pilrimage on the Isle of Iona, Scotland
- Abstract:
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This thesis spotlights a social group pilgrimage site staff heretofore neglected in anthropological research. The main subjects are the Resident Group ('ressies') working at the lona Community's guest centres. Based on an accumulative 16-month fieldwork, the ethnographic evidence challenges the assumptions that pilgrims' 'sacred' encounters are unmediated, that site staff passively acquiesce with the dominant ideology, and that the production of pilgrimage experience is unproblematic. Bui...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2006
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602157173
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:602157173
- Deposit date:
- 2013-01-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Chew, Michelle W.
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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