The Homecoming of Tartan: How Scotland and North America Collaborate in Shaping Tartan
For many diaspora Scots, Scotland has remained the ancestral land, the home to which they could potentially return, and from which their identities originated. Through familiar spiritual, educational, and cultural beacons, diaspora Scots have often recreated a Scotland of the mind helping them maint...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Études écossaises
2016
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | For many diaspora Scots, Scotland has remained the ancestral land, the home to which they could potentially return, and from which their identities originated. Through familiar spiritual, educational, and cultural beacons, diaspora Scots have often recreated a Scotland of the mind helping them maintain their Scottish heritage and cope with their new environments. This looking back to Scotland has been described by historians as “Homeland Orientation”. This article demonstrates, through a case study on tartan, that the relationships between the homeland and its diaspora are not unidirectional since Scotland and North America have established a bilateral partnership in that field over the last decades. Scotland’s recent positive re-assessment of tartan by academics and politicians alike has to some extent been made possible thanks to the support of North America. |
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