My own island home: The Orkney homecoming

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-42

  Basu, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canada; Diaspora; Genealogy; Heritage tourism; Homeland; Identity; Orkney islands; Scotland

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE; DIASPORA; HERITAGE TOURISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ORKNEY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1842710974     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359183504041088     Document Type: Article

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