Gary J West lectures in Scottish Ethnology at the University of Edinburgh. His teaching and research interests include oral history and tradition, cultural revivalism, traditional music, and constructions of identity. His doctoral thesis, 'Farm, Fam
...MoreGary J West lectures in Scottish Ethnology at the University of Edinburgh. His teaching and research interests include oral history and tradition, cultural revivalism, traditional music, and constructions of identity. His doctoral thesis, 'Farm, Family and Neighbourhood in Post-Improvement Perthshire: An Historical Ethnography was awarded the Michaelis Jena Ratcliff Prize for Folklife in 2000-01. Dr West is also highly active as a performer of Scottish traditional music, and currently presents Pipeline, a specialist piping programme on BBC Radio Scotland
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