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Bring Forrit the Tartan |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: Sheila K. Webster-Jain |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 4,000 Words, 24,160 Characters |
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Symbols of Scottish ethnicity include names that echo the clan system, highland costume, highland dance, bagpipe music, and various festive events--all of which have their roots in long tradition. But it is for their distinctive and colorful costumes and fabrics that Scots are perhaps best known throughout the world. Less well known is the history of the evolution of Highland dress, from its role as the attire of Scots living in the most remote parts of northwestern Scotland to its elevated status as the Scottish national dress.
Following years of warfare against England, which culminated in the Scots' defeat at Collodon in 1745, great changes occurred in the Scottish Highlands. Rebellions and hard economic times followed in the wake of legislative union between Scotland and England,...
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...ransgressing the limits and patterns prescribed and sanctioned by the surrounding … culture," says Robert Klymasz. Just as fictive kinship often forged the links between individuals in the traditional clan system, so folklorismic and refolklorized phenomena enable ethnic Scots to maintain and proclaim their separateness from all others through the swing of the kilt and the skirl of the bagpipes.
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