Social Anthropologies of the Welsh

W. John Morgan (Editor) is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Education, University of Nottingham; Honorary Professor, School of Social Sciences, and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, and Data,Cardiff University.Fiona Bowie (Editor) is Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford University, and a member of Wolfson College, Oxford.Contributors: Helen Blakely, David Dallimore, Howard Davis, Marta Eischsteller, Elaine Forde,Taulant Guma, Chris Hann, Rhys Dafydd Jones, Robin Mann, John O Connell, Elen Phillips, Huw Pryce, Gareth Rees, Iwan Wyn Rees, Marilyn Strathern.

• Introduction (W. John Morgan and Fiona Bowie); Chapter 1 – Horizons of comparison (Marilyn Strathern);Chapter 2 – Gerald of Wales: Medieval ethnographer of the Welsh (Huw Pryce); Chapter 3 – Sir William Jones: Welsh Orientalist and comparative musicologist (John O’Connell); Chapter 4 – Wales in miniature: Iorwerth C. Peate and the Welsh Folk Museum (Elen Phillips); Chapter 5 – Anthropological perspectives on religion in Wales (Fiona Bowie); Chapter 6 – The Welsh in diaspora: Patagonia (Iwan Wyn Rees); Chapter 7 – Community studies and twentieth-century social change: Perspectives on Welsh society (Gareth Rees); Chapter 8 – Exploring civil society through the lens of place: Illustrations from a post-industrial Welsh village (Robin Mann, David Dallimore, Howard Davis and Marta Eichsteller); Chapter 9 – Making sense of welfare reform: History, community and kinship in the South Wales valleys (Helen Blakely); Chapter 10 – One Wales, one model?: Complicating ways of knowing Wales (Elaine Forde); Chapter 11 – ‘I didn’t even know that Wales existed’: European Union migrants’ participation and belonging in Wales (Taulant Guma and Rhys Dafydd Jones); Chapter 12 – Voyages around fathers: Class, community, and mobility in industrial South Wales (Chris Hann); Contributors; Index.

Since the pioneering social studies of the likes of Alwyn Rees and Ronald Frankenberg, Isabel Emmett and Joseph Loudon, Wales has inspired significant anthropological contributions. This volume is no less pioneering in its interdisciplinary focus on ‘the Welsh’. With Great Britain’s unity once more being called into question, and relations to Europe and the wider world open to debate, this is a necessary volume. Professor Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews