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TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 477-489Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12042
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narrative essay; story; ruins; family; archaeology; historical geography
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This is a narrative essay, the animating purpose of which is stylistic as much as analytic. It is a story; and, unusually for academic geography, the story is primary. The essay has no deferred object; it is not 'about' something more academic but nor does it abrogate the work of analysis. It narrates the story of the Scottish archaeologist Erskine Beveridge and his family, as told through a prolonged encounter with the ruins of his house situated on the Hebridean island of North Uist. A discussion of ruins, archives and fieldwork runs parallel with, but always subsidiary to, the main narrative.
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