The One Blood

Kinship and Class in an Irish Village

By Elliott Leyton
Series: Social and Economic Studies
Publisher: ISER Books
Paperback : 9780919666108, 110 pages, January 1975

Description

In a Protestant fishing village in Northern Ireland what determines an individual's behaviour towards his kinsmen is as much his social class as his culture's ancient dictates. Thus the obligations of kinship vary from an encumbrance for the village business elite to an important source of security for the masses.