“A compelling sense of place”: Recent ethnographic approaches in the British Isles

Bell, Michael Mayerfeld. Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xi + 279 pp. including notes, references, and index. $32.50 cloth.

Gulliver, P. H. and Marilyn Silverman. Merchants and Shopkeepers: A Historical Anthropology of an Irish Market Town. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. ix + 440 pp. including appendices, notes, references, and index. $60.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Kennedy Neville, Gwen. The Mother Town: Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. ix +150 pp. including appendix, notes, references, and index. $35.00 cloth, and $16.95 paper.