Celtic Cultures: Ancient & Modern
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
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The purpose of Celtic Cultures: Ancient & Modern is to serve as an introduction to Celtic Studies in Anthropology, beginning with ancient Celtic cultures in Europe, which rely on Classical histories or archeology for their descriptions, followed by an ethnographic overview of modern Celtic cultures in Europe, relying mainly on anthropological descriptions.
About the Author
PART 1 INTRODUCTION
Modern Celtic Cultures: An Ethnographic Survey
Introduction
Chapter 1 What Is “CELTIC”?
Chapter 2 Ancient Celts
Before the Celts
The Coming of the Celts?
Iron
Hallstatt
The Coming of the Celts, or Were They Already There?
The First Millennium BCE
La Tène
Tartessian Celtic Language
Classical Authors
Historical Records
What Happened Between 400 and 50 BCE?
Brennus 1
Brennus 2
Caesar
Boudicca, From Works of Tacitus Book XIV, Especially Chapters 29 to 37
Agricola
Chapter 3 The Medieval World
Celtic Mythology
Cu Chulainn and the Táin Bo Cuailnge
Finn Mac Cool and the Early Middle Ages
Early Middle Ages and Saint Patrick’s Confessio
Brendan, Arthur, Kenneth, and Nominoë
Brittany and Nominoë
The Viking Era
Brian Boru
Brehon Law and the Norman Period
The Norman Period
Motte and Bailey
Wales
Madog ap Owain Gwynedd
The Mabinogian
Dermot MacMurrough, Strongbow, and Galloglasses in Ireland
What They Ate and Where They Lived
Raths, Crannogs, and Tower Houses
Scotland
They Made His Butler King?
Zheng He, With Tudors on the Horizon
The Tudors
Tudor Monarchs
Pirate Queen, Chimneys, and Potatoes
The Coming of the Celts—Again!
The 17th Century
PART 2 THE TRANSITION PERIOD
The 17th Century
Culloden
Penal Laws, Barbadosed, Year of the French
The Early-19th Century
The Famine
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries in Brittany
Sovereignty Issues and Relations with National (and Local) Government(S)
Chapter 4 Brittany
Chapter 5 Cornwall
The Once and Future Kings
Chapter 6 Ireland
A Brief History of Anthropology in Ireland: The “Sacred Texts”
Everyday Life in the Past
Ireland in the Last 120 Years
Ballybradán
Ballybradán in the 21st Century
Chapter 7 Isle of Man
Chapter 8 Scotland
Social Control
Chapter 9 Wales
Wales: Ethnography and Language in the 20th Century
Wales: Ethnography and Language in the 21st Century
Chapter 10 GALICIA AND THE DIASPORA
Galicia
Canada: Two Communities
Montserrat
Barbados
Argentina
References and Suggestions for Further Reading
Michael J. Simonton has published four books previously, three of which he wrote, and one that is a collection of readings. The current text is his fifth book since earning his PhD in Social Anthropology at the National University of Ireland–Galway, which recently (2022) was renamed Ollscoil na Gaillimhe—University of Galway. He also has published numerous book chapters and encyclopedia entries, often on Celtic subjects. He has conducted longitudinal research into the anthropology aging within the changing social context of Ireland’s western province, Connacht, beginning in 1982 and continuing into the present. He has been on the faculty of five universities over the course of his career. His current fulltime position is Director of Celtic Studies and Lecturer in Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University.