{"id":7469,"date":"2015-09-01T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7469"},"modified":"2015-09-01T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T22:29:03","slug":"trace-what-it-means-to-be-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7469","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Trace What It Means To Be Celtic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-video-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t<video controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"603\"\n\t\t height=\"340\"\t><\/video>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Celtic-BBC.mp4'>Celtic-BBC<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"video\",\"tracklist\":false,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Celtic-BBC.mp4\",\"type\":\"video\/mp4\",\"title\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"meta\":{\"length_formatted\":\"0:30\"},\"dimensions\":{\"original\":{\"width\":426,\"height\":240},\"resized\":{\"width\":603,\"height\":340}},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/video.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/video.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p>In their book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pop-Pagans-Paganism-Contemporary-Historical\/dp\/1844656470\">Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music<\/a>, <\/em>Donna Weston and Andy Bennett use the term &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=gcXoBAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA183&amp;lpg=PA183&amp;dq=marion+bowman+cardiac+celt&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=1qoYEQjSLP&amp;sig=xfs1vS8FTXkMQ83mxPazVjQn4Ug&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwBGoVChMI6dGX5uvWxwIVQ5eACh1NiQfc#v=onepage&amp;q=marion%20bowman%20cardiac%20celt&amp;f=false\">cardiac Celts . . . people who feel in their heart that they are Celtic<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They are not the only ones who use it \u2014 but I wonder if this new British Museum exhibit will name-check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/mib46\">Marion Bowman, who teaches religious studies at The Open University,<\/a> the scholar who first employed the term in an\u00a0 essay\u00a0 included in the book, <em>Paganism Today <\/em>((Marion <a href=\"http:\/\/oro.open.ac.uk\/view\/person\/mib46.html\">Bowman, <\/a>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/oro.open.ac.uk\/22155\/\">Cardiac Celts: Images of the Celts in Contemporary British Paganism,&#8221; i<\/a>n\u00a0<em>Paganism Today<\/em>, ed. Graham Harvey and Charlotte Hardman (London: Thorsons, 1995), 242\u201351.))<\/p>\n<p>I still look at &#8220;Celtic&#8221; as identifying<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celtic_languages\"> a language group<\/a> \u2014 to be Welsh, for instance, is an ethnicity, but &#8220;Celtic&#8221; is not. That term covers too much time and space to mean anything useful as an ethnic tag. Nevertheless, since the late 18th century, there have been many attempts to use it that way, and I suspect that this exhibit \u2014 which I will probably never see \u2014 will examine them.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I can get the published catalog, if there is one.<\/p>\n<p>Notice how drumming is always the aural cue for &#8220;barbarians.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their book Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music, Donna Weston and Andy Bennett use the term &#8220;cardiac Celts . . . people who feel in their heart that they are Celtic.&#8221; They are not the only ones who use it \u2014 but I wonder if this new British Museum exhibit will name-check Marion Bowman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,38,4],"class_list":["post-7469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-celts","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1Wt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":740,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=740","url_meta":{"origin":7469,"position":0},"title":"Who&#8217;s a Celt now?-1","author":"Chas S. 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