Anthropology

Sewanee: The University of the South

Celeste Ray

Professor of Anthropology

Celeste Ray

cray@sewanee.edu
931.598.1829
Cleveland 8

Education

  • Ph.D. 1996 Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • M.A. 1991 Cultural Resource Management, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • B.A. 1988 Anthropology, University of Florida

Research Interests

  • Ethnoecology, Ritual and Belief
  • Ireland, Scotland, South Tirol, the American South

Books

Highland Heritage (book)Highland Heritage:
Scottish Americans in the American South.
(2001).
University of North Carolina Press

Transatlantic Scots (book)Transatlantic Scots.
(2005).
University of Alabama Press

Southern Heritage on Display (book)Southern Heritage on Display: Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity
within Southern Regionalism.
(February 2003).
University of Alabama Press

Ethnicity (book)Ethnicity:
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
(2007).
University of North Carolina Press

Signifying Serpents & Mardi Gras Runners (book)Signifying Serpents & Mardi Gras Runners:
Representing Identity in Selected Souths.
(Spring 2003).
University of Georgia Press.
Co-Edited with Eric Lassiter.

(Apparently there are other Celeste Rays with an interest in things-Scottish. I do not sing or sell CDs and this is my only web site.)

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