Scottish Life and Society Volume 2

An interest in rural life and culture has long been a feature of ethnology in Scotland and this installment of the significant ethnological series documents that necessary element of Scottish history. The multiauthor volume explores a variety of topics on the broad theme of farming and the land—including the environmental setting; settlement, society, and landscape; crops and livestock; buildings; the workforce; types of land use; tools, techniques, and processes; industry, engineering, communications, and trade; writing, museums, education, and research; and culture and community. Ranging from the Northern Isles to the southwest and the eastern Lowlands to the western Highlands, this account looks at the medieval period to the 21st century.