The Appropriation of the Scottish âOtherâ as a Race within White Culture in Anthropology

Sawsan Samara

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The Appropriation of the Scottish âOtherâ as a Race within White Culture in Anthropology

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Pages:: 11â21

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848882829_003

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Anthropology writings on Europe, and specifically writings on Greece, are argued to have created a racial âotherâ within Europe. In the 1950s, colonies outside Europe closed their doors in the face of anthropologists, leading to the study of societies within Europe; hence within the borders of the White race. By reviewing different literature, this chapter aims to prove the anthropology of Scotland as an additional case describing a racial âotherâ within the racial White. The âotherâ is a label that is often used to describe the society being studied in anthropology based on a process known as the âothering.â The communities being âotheredâ are those described as exotic, remote, authentic, primitive or static, which matches the descriptions in the literature available on anthropology of Scotland. Anthropologists saw the Scottish as filling the role of the noble savage in comparison to the savage of the non-Western, non-White world. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that in anthropology the Scottish people were defined primarily as Gaelic, which comprises a different race, and hence demonstrates the racial âothernessâ of the Scottish communities in anthropology. It is often perceived that in post-modernism, anthropology writings moved away from all kinds of âotheringâ which includes racial. On that basis, the paper reviews the anthropology of Scotland through two main phases â before and after the rise of anthropologyâs self-criticism â and argues their similarity in demonstrating the racial âothernessâ of Scotland from White culture. One of the main similarities is the persistence of describing their unique Gaelic racial identity. As a conclusion of such study, it becomes evident that racial âothernessâ within the White race is appropriated in anthropology. Furthermore, the description of the otherâs race describes an image of whiteness that is âothered,â while it also reflects and essentialises an image of White culture which is the âself.â

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