Neill Martin
Head of Department, Senior Lecturer in Scottish Ethnology, Director of the European Ethnological Research Centre
- Celtic and Scottish Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 1981
- Email: Neill.Martin@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 4.36
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LD
Qualifications
BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Fellow, Society of Antiquaries (Scotland)
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Senior Disability Co-ordinator, LLC
- Member, LLC Senior Management Group
- LLC Representative, College Recruitment and Admissions Strategy Committee
- LLC Representative, College Study Abroad Progression Committee
- Member, UnaEuropa Self-steering group on Cultural Heritage
- Chair, LLC Year Abroad Working Group
- Member, LLC Board of Examiners
- Member, LLC Learning and Teaching Committee
- CSS International Exchange Co-ordinator
- Member, Scottish Government Cross-Party Parliamentary Committee on Scots
Undergraduate teaching
Course Organiser for
- Visualising Scotland
- The Supernatural World
- Custom, Belief and Community
- Traditional Drama
Contribute to
- Ethnological Fieldwork Methods
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
- non-narrative oral poetry
- custom and belief, ritual
- traditional drama
- carnival and festive culture
- invented traditions (especially in post-socialist Europe)
- ritual language
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Towards harmony: Wordplay and the Gaelic Reiteach
(24 pages)
In:
Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, vol. 69, pp. 169-192
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Die Renaissance des Kosakentums auf der Krim: Ergebnisse einer Mikrostudie
(28 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Custom, Belief and Folk Drama
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
'A Guid Hairst': Collecting and Archiving Scottish Tradition: Essays in Honour of Dr Margaret A. Mackay
(323 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
A Rough Wooing? On the Theme of Abduction in Courtship Ballads
(30 pages)
In:
Proceedings of the Singapore National Academy of Science, vol. 28, pp. 105-135
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Ritualised Entry in Seasonal and Marriage Custom
In:
Folk Life, vol. 46, pp. 73-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/043087707798236324
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
'Come and Eat Fish Soup With Us!' Baja's Fish Festival as Spectacle and Performance
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
The Form and Function of Ritual Dialogue in the Marriage Traditions of Celtic-language Cultures
(428 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published)