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1 online resource (x, 74 pages) : chiefly illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary |
Annotation Long considered as "outsiders" or "strangers" in their own country, The Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction; they were the drivers for these cultural representations of their own community. Paul Harrison's photos are beautiful because they are arresting. They show us a "hidden Ireland", one that is often relegated To The societal margins. They haunt the viewer. They interrogate the notion of what it means to be human.<br />The late-twentieth century has witnessed a particular prominence assigned To The discourses of "difference" and "Otherness", discourses which subvert hegemonically-defined representations and demystify what was once simple domination and reification. Representations of cultural minorities, whether literary or visual, play a profound role in how groups such as Irish Travellers are defined and treated by the non-Traveller community. Essentialist notions of migrants and other traditionally-nomadic peoples have a long and complex history. The history of Irish Traveller is no different. For hundreds of years they have en-numerated the projective function of the "Othering" process, a form of rejection and marginalisation that was the institutionalization of ideas and images. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) -- History.
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Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) |
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History. |
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Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) -- Social conditions.
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Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) -- Social conditions. |
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Marginality, Social -- Ireland -- History.
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Marginality, Social. |
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Ireland. |
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Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) -- Pictorial works.
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Other (Philosophy) -- Ireland.
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Other (Philosophy) |
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Ireland -- History.
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Ireland -- Pictorial works.
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Electronic books.
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Pictorial works.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Illustrated works.
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Illustrated works.
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Added Author |
Ó hAodha, Mícheál, 1969-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Harrison, Paul, 1945- Traveller friends. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009 9781443812573 (OCoLC)431193304 |
ISBN |
9781443815680 (electronic book) |
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1443815683 (electronic book) |
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9781443812573 |
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1443812579 |
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