†Arensberg and Kimball’s study of County Clare in Ireland was, if not the first of its kind in Europe, the most influential in initiating a new genre of *ethnography: the study of the ‘traditional’ rural *community within a...

Northern Europe includes Great Britain, Ireland, Northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. This group of countries is significant in a number of ways, being mostly characterized by long histories...

Northern Europe is a term for the northern part of Europe, though its precise boundaries are vague and defined variously. It is a term that groups the Nordic countries (which are present in all...