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Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1988. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, 271–313. London : Macmillan. Spring, Ian. 1990. Phantom Village: The Myth of the New Glasgow. Edinburgh: Polygon. West, Cornel. 1990. “The New Cultural Politics of Difference.” In The Cultural Studies Reader, ed. Simon During, 203–17. London: Routledge, 1993. Willis, Paul. 1997. “TIES: Theoretically Informed Ethnographic Study.” In Anthropology and Cultural Studies, ed. Stephen Nugent and Cris Shore, 182–92. London: Pluto. 356 / McArthur Paul Basu Basu is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Sussex. His forthcoming book, Highland Homecomings: Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora, results from several years’ research exploring the relationships between landscape, memory, and identity in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Margaret Bennett A folklorist, Professor Bennett has taught in the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University and is now a Research Fellow in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow. Her books include Oatmeal and the Catechism: Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec (1999) and Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave (2nd ed., 2001). Edward J. Cowan Cowan is chair of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow. In addition to popular culture, his interests span Viking history and the Icelandic sagas, the Scottish Wars of Independence, Scottish political thought, and Scottish identity at home and abroad. He has written or edited ¤fteen books, including: Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages (ed., 2002); Scotland since 1688 (2000); and The Ballad in Scottish History (2001). Contributors Jonathan Dembling Dembling is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts , Amherst. A Gaelic-speaker, Dembling has published Gaelic music reviews and articles on the Gaelic revival in Canada. Andrew Hook Hook is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, where a Center for American Studies has been named in his honor. His ten books include From Goosecreek to Gandercleugh: Studies in Scottish-American Literary and Cultural History (1999); The Glasgow Enlightenment (1995, coedited with Richard Sher); and Scotland and America: A Study of Cultural Relations , 1750–1835 (1975). James Hunter Formerly chairman for the Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Hunter is a freelance writer and historian. His ten books include A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada (1994); The Other Side of Sorrow: Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands (1995); Scottish Highlanders, Indian Peoples: Thirty Generations of a Montana Family, (1996); Last of the Free: A Millennial History of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (2000); and Culloden and the Last Clansmen (2002). Grant Jarvie Jarvie is chair and head of Scotland’s ¤rst Department of Sports Studies, at the University of Stirling. His most recent book is Sport, Revolution, and the Beijing Olympic Games (2005). He has written extensively on both historical and sociological aspects of sport in society, including Sport, Scotland, and the Scots (2000); Sport in the Making of Celtic Cultures (1999); Scottish Sport in the Making of the Nation: Ninety-Minute Patriots? (1994); and Highland Games: The Making of the Myth (1991). Colin McArthur Formerly a senior executive with the British Film Institute, Colin McArthur is now a freelance teacher, writer, and graphic artist. He has written extensively 358 / Contributors on Hollywood cinema, British television, and Scottish culture. His many books include Brigadoon, Braveheart, and the Scots: Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema (2003); Underworld USA (1972); Television and History (1978); Scotch Reels: Scotland in Cinema and Television (1982); The Big Heat (1992); and Whisky Galore! and the Maggie (2003). Celeste Ray An anthropologist, Ray is associate professor and chair at the University of the South. Her books include Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South (2001); Southern Heritage on Display: Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism (2003); and Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners: Representation and Identity in Selected Souths (2003). John W. Sheets Chair of the Department of History and Anthropology at Central Missouri State University, Sheets has published on topics in biological anthropology and genetics and began publishing on his ethnographic research in Scotland in the 1990s. His Scottish research, appearing in journals such as Current Anthropology and Scottish Studies, considers biography, demography, migrations, and folklore. Michael Vance Vance is associate professor of history at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with particular interests in identity politics, migration history, and memory. His publications include several articles on Lowland migration to Canada and an edited book on Scottish ethnic...

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