Lorne J Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 98903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorne J Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorne J |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lafayette College |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8610-7739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The paradox of information abundance: Answers provided by popular information-seeking tools lead to differences in trust, memorability and desire for more information
People judged ChatGPT and Google Snippets responses to trivia and how-to queries. • People trust ChatGPT’s longer responses to queries more than Google’s short answers. • ChatGPT’s responses are more ‘fluent’ and less likely to prompt a desire for additional information. • Google’s shorter responses are more memorable than ChatGPT’s longer responses. • Paradox of information abundance: People prefer longer answers but remember them less. Search e…
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Moral Entrepreneurs and Moral Geographies on the US/Mexico Border
This article explores the difference and interplay between the border as legal/political fact and the borderland as complex social/cultural reality through the development and application of the theoretical concepts of moral geography and moral entrepreneur. I argue that these concepts provide a bridge between macro, structural views of ‘the production of (borderland) space’ as used by critical geographers and the more experiential orientation su…
Centre and Edge: Pilgrimage and the Moral Geography of the US/Mexico Border
This essay posits two forms of pilgrimage – to the centre and to the edge – as forms of meaningful movement that contribute to the moral geography of peoples and nations. This model is applied to a variety of disparate, current movements through the desert borderlands of the United States and Mexico, all of which can be read as employing pilgrimage in the task of inscribing versions of America on a highly contested landscape. Keywords: Pilgrimage…
Seeing, acting, understanding: Motor resonance in language comprehension.
Observing actions and understanding sentences about actions activates corresponding motor processes in the observer-comprehender. In 5 experiments, the authors addressed 2 novel questions regarding language-based motor resonance. The 1st question asks whether visual motion that is associated with an action produces motor resonance in sentence comprehension. The 2nd question asks whether motor resonance is modulated during sentence comprehension. …
Material Conflicts: Parades and Visual Displays in Northern Ireland
The performance of memory. Part 1 The tradition of parading: a custom established, 1690-1790 riotous assemblies, 1769-1850 parading identity, 1870-1968. Part 2 Two communities: the glorious twelfth the endless parade our day will come - parading Irish nationalism. Part 3 Display faith: trust in God, but keep your powder dry a nation once again. Part 4 Painting the streets: at the going down of the sun hungering for peace
Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
Due to the tenacity of disciplinary boundaries in the Irish academy, only a small number of anthropologists seek to integrate past and present in their analyses. The book Occasions of faith: An anthropology of Irish Catholics makes a valuable contribution to such interdisciplinary methodologies, while it examines the beliefs and practices of residents in Southwest Donegal. Throughout the book, Taylor masterfully weaves past and present together u…
Merchants and Shopkeepers: A Historical Anthropology of an Irish Market Town, 1200-1991
Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
Devotional occasions or experiences by Irish Catholics form the crux of this powerful, first book-length anthropological study of Irish Catholicism. Rich in ethnographical material, wide-ranging archival sources, insightful cultural observations, vivid accounts of individual experiences, and thoughtful scrutiny of religious questions and theories illuminate twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork. From these varied resources Lawrence Taylor create…
There Are Two Things that People Don't Like to Hear about Themselves: The Anthropology of Ireland and the Irish View of Anthropology
My title is derived from a quip by the late John Maloney, a wise publican of southwest Donegal. The year was 1973, and we had been discussing the public relations problems of anthropologists in Ireland. No doubt exaggerating, he told me that, according to his sources, neither of two ethnographers of small islands off the west coast could safely return to his research site. I asked him about a rather technical kinship article by another anthropolo…
Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
Irish Travellers: Culture and Ethnicity. MAY McCann, SÉAmas Ó SÍCHÁIN, and Joseph Ruane, eds
Irish Urban Cultures
The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana
Journal Article The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana. By Rob Kroes. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. x, 161 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-01931-8.) Get access Lawrence J. Taylor Lawrence J. Taylor Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1495–1496, https://doi.org/1…
Images of Faith: Expressionism, Catholic Folk Art, and the Industrial Revolution
Irish Farmers and Travellers
Eugenia Shanklin. Donegal's Changing Traditions. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1985. xviii. 236 pp. $29.00 (cloth). Sharon Gmelch. Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman. New York: Norton, 1986. 239 pp. $15.95 (cloth
Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European Society
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Bás InEirinn: Cultural Constructions of Death in Ireland
“Bás InEirinn” (“To die in Ireland”) is a Gaelic drinking toast whose resonance is explored in this case study of the relation of meaning and power. By viewing death as opportunity as well as problem, I interpret varying cultural constructions of Irish death in light of the historical dialectic between the Catholic Church and popular practice. Whereas the Church has generally assumed control of the ritualization of death, there are also striking …
Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community
Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community
The Priest and the Agent: Social Drama and Class Consciousness in the West of Ireland
On the morning of 4 April 1877, estate agent Arthur Brooke drove his carriage up to the gate of Cashel Farm, the residence of John Magroarty in Carrick, a small market town in the mountainous hinterland of southwest Donegal. Brooke had brought sheriff McCrory along with him, but his bailiffs emerged from their nearby homes a bit more reluctantly than usual. It was clear to Brooke that tenant Magroarty would not submit mildly to the impending evic…
Dutchmen on the Bay. The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community
Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community
Journal Article Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community. By Lawrence J. Taylor. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. xviii + 206 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, appendixes, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $12.95.) Get access James D. Bratt James D. Bratt University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
Moral Entrepreneurs and Moral Geographies on the US/Mexico Border
This article explores the difference and interplay between the border as legal/political fact and the borderland as complex social/cultural reality through the development and application of the theoretical concepts of moral geography and moral entrepreneur. I argue that these concepts provide a bridge between macro, structural views of ‘the production of (borderland) space’ as used by critical geographers and the more experiential orientation su…
Man the Fisher: Salmon fishing and the expression of community in a rural Irish settlement
This paper analyzes the significance of the summer salmon fishery of Teelin, a small coastal settlement in county Donegal, Ireland. Although not of great economic importance to most Teelin families, the salmon pursuit is the subject of considerable cultural attention, providing a source of communal and personal identity. An explanation for the disproportionate cultural strength of the fishery is sought in its contribution to the maintenance of th…
Colonialism and Community Structure in Western Ireland
This article attempts a tentative explanation of structural differences and similarities among contemporary Irish communities as described by anthropologists. Two ideal-typical case studies of community development are described in which the role of landlord-tenant relations is critical. In the first type, exemplified by County Clare, the structure of social relations was affected by disincorporating processes active through the colonial period. …
There Are Two Things that People Don't Like to Hear about Themselves: The Anthropology of Ireland and the Irish View of Anthropology
My title is derived from a quip by the late John Maloney, a wise publican of southwest Donegal. The year was 1973, and we had been discussing the public relations problems of anthropologists in Ireland. No doubt exaggerating, he told me that, according to his sources, neither of two ethnographers of small islands off the west coast could safely return to his research site. I asked him about a rather technical kinship article by another anthropolo…
The Priest and the Agent: Social Drama and Class Consciousness in the West of Ireland
On the morning of 4 April 1877, estate agent Arthur Brooke drove his carriage up to the gate of Cashel Farm, the residence of John Magroarty in Carrick, a small market town in the mountainous hinterland of southwest Donegal. Brooke had brought sheriff McCrory along with him, but his bailiffs emerged from their nearby homes a bit more reluctantly than usual. It was clear to Brooke that tenant Magroarty would not submit mildly to the impending evic…
Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
Due to the tenacity of disciplinary boundaries in the Irish academy, only a small number of anthropologists seek to integrate past and present in their analyses. The book Occasions of faith: An anthropology of Irish Catholics makes a valuable contribution to such interdisciplinary methodologies, while it examines the beliefs and practices of residents in Southwest Donegal. Throughout the book, Taylor masterfully weaves past and present together u…
Centre and Edge: Pilgrimage and the Moral Geography of the US/Mexico Border
This essay posits two forms of pilgrimage – to the centre and to the edge – as forms of meaningful movement that contribute to the moral geography of peoples and nations. This model is applied to a variety of disparate, current movements through the desert borderlands of the United States and Mexico, all of which can be read as employing pilgrimage in the task of inscribing versions of America on a highly contested landscape. Keywords: Pilgrimage…
Three Dimensions of Intellectual Functioning in Australian Aboriginal and Disadvantaged European Children
Tests of verbal intelligence, operational thinking, and divergent thinking were administered to thirty Aboriginal and thirty disadvantaged European children living in Alice Springs, N.T., Australia. Scores from the three types of tests were correlated with each other to determine the relationship among them. Differences were sought between age ranges and ethnic groups on each of the three kinds of tests by means of t tests and analyses of varianc…
Bás InEirinn: Cultural Constructions of Death in Ireland
“Bás InEirinn” (“To die in Ireland”) is a Gaelic drinking toast whose resonance is explored in this case study of the relation of meaning and power. By viewing death as opportunity as well as problem, I interpret varying cultural constructions of Irish death in light of the historical dialectic between the Catholic Church and popular practice. Whereas the Church has generally assumed control of the ritualization of death, there are also striking …
Three Dimensions of Intellectual Functioning in Australian Aboriginal and Disadvantaged European Children
Tests of verbal intelligence, operational thinking, and divergent thinking were administered to thirty Aboriginal and thirty disadvantaged European children living in Alice Springs, N.T., Australia. Scores from the three types of tests were correlated with each other to determine the relationship among them. Differences were sought between age ranges and ethnic groups on each of the three kinds of tests by means of t tests and analyses of varianc…
Level I and Level II Intelligence in Inuit and White Children from Similar Environments
The participants in this study consisted of 239 children residing in four communities on the coast of Labrador-63 lnuit and 176 White subjects. The Level I and Level II intelligence measures were a series of digit span tests and Raven's progressive matrices, respectively. The results indicated some differences between the Inuit and White sample in Level I measures, decreasing with age, and a significant difference on the Level Il tests favoring t…
Sex and Psychological Differentiation
The present research examined sex differences in relation to psychological differentiation in boys and girls of kindergarten and Grades 1, 2, 3, and 5. The expected differences were not found, and findings relating to family environments suggest reasons for no difference. The effect of age on the development of differentiation was also examined, with present data, on the whole, confirming previous research
Colonialism and Community Structure in Western Ireland
This article attempts a tentative explanation of structural differences and similarities among contemporary Irish communities as described by anthropologists. Two ideal-typical case studies of community development are described in which the role of landlord-tenant relations is critical. In the first type, exemplified by County Clare, the structure of social relations was affected by disincorporating processes active through the colonial period. …
Ethnology: The Tory Islanders: A People of the Celtic Fringe. Robin Fox
American AnthropologistVolume 82, Issue 3 p. 681-682 Free Access Ethnology: The Tory Islanders: A People of the Celtic Fringe. Robin Fox Lawrence J. Taylor, Lawrence J. Taylor Lafayette CollegeSearch for more papers by this author Lawrence J. Taylor, Lawrence J. Taylor Lafayette CollegeSearch for more papers by this author First published: September 1980 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1980.82.3.02a01020AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTra…
Man the Fisher: Salmon fishing and the expression of community in a rural Irish settlement
This paper analyzes the significance of the summer salmon fishery of Teelin, a small coastal settlement in county Donegal, Ireland. Although not of great economic importance to most Teelin families, the salmon pursuit is the subject of considerable cultural attention, providing a source of communal and personal identity. An explanation for the disproportionate cultural strength of the fishery is sought in its contribution to the maintenance of th…
The Western Isles Today. Judith Ennew
The Ring of Dancers: Images of Faroese Culture. Jonathan Wylie and David Margolin
Dutchmen on the Bay. The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community
Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community
Journal Article Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community. By Lawrence J. Taylor. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. xviii + 206 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, appendixes, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $12.95.) Get access James D. Bratt James D. Bratt University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community
Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community
The Priest and the Agent: Social Drama and Class Consciousness in the West of Ireland
On the morning of 4 April 1877, estate agent Arthur Brooke drove his carriage up to the gate of Cashel Farm, the residence of John Magroarty in Carrick, a small market town in the mountainous hinterland of southwest Donegal. Brooke had brought sheriff McCrory along with him, but his bailiffs emerged from their nearby homes a bit more reluctantly than usual. It was clear to Brooke that tenant Magroarty would not submit mildly to the impending evic…
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Bás InEirinn: Cultural Constructions of Death in Ireland
“Bás InEirinn” (“To die in Ireland”) is a Gaelic drinking toast whose resonance is explored in this case study of the relation of meaning and power. By viewing death as opportunity as well as problem, I interpret varying cultural constructions of Irish death in light of the historical dialectic between the Catholic Church and popular practice. Whereas the Church has generally assumed control of the ritualization of death, there are also striking …
Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European Society
Irish Farmers and Travellers
Eugenia Shanklin. Donegal's Changing Traditions. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1985. xviii. 236 pp. $29.00 (cloth). Sharon Gmelch. Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman. New York: Norton, 1986. 239 pp. $15.95 (cloth
Images of Faith: Expressionism, Catholic Folk Art, and the Industrial Revolution
The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana
Journal Article The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana. By Rob Kroes. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. x, 161 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-01931-8.) Get access Lawrence J. Taylor Lawrence J. Taylor Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1495–1496, https://doi.org/1…
Irish Travellers: Culture and Ethnicity. MAY McCann, SÉAmas Ó SÍCHÁIN, and Joseph Ruane, eds
Irish Urban Cultures
Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
Devotional occasions or experiences by Irish Catholics form the crux of this powerful, first book-length anthropological study of Irish Catholicism. Rich in ethnographical material, wide-ranging archival sources, insightful cultural observations, vivid accounts of individual experiences, and thoughtful scrutiny of religious questions and theories illuminate twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork. From these varied resources Lawrence Taylor create…
There Are Two Things that People Don't Like to Hear about Themselves: The Anthropology of Ireland and the Irish View of Anthropology
My title is derived from a quip by the late John Maloney, a wise publican of southwest Donegal. The year was 1973, and we had been discussing the public relations problems of anthropologists in Ireland. No doubt exaggerating, he told me that, according to his sources, neither of two ethnographers of small islands off the west coast could safely return to his research site. I asked him about a rather technical kinship article by another anthropolo…
Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
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