The Invention of TraditionEric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger Cambridge University Press, 26 mar 2012 Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention – the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial rituals in British India and Africa; and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own. It addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history. |
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Pagina 16
... Scottish crown, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland were culturally depressed. Their literature, such as it was, was a crude echo of Irish literature. The bards of the Scottish chieftains came from Ireland or went thither to learn ...
... Scottish crown, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland were culturally depressed. Their literature, such as it was, was a crude echo of Irish literature. The bards of the Scottish chieftains came from Ireland or went thither to learn ...
Pagina 17
... Scottish antiquaries, the Jacobite émigré priest, Thomas Innes. But it was reasserted in 1738 by David Malcolm3 and ... Scottish history those 'two learned Highlanders', James Macpherson and the Rev. John Macpherson, and thus perpetuated ...
... Scottish antiquaries, the Jacobite émigré priest, Thomas Innes. But it was reasserted in 1738 by David Malcolm3 and ... Scottish history those 'two learned Highlanders', James Macpherson and the Rev. John Macpherson, and thus perpetuated ...
Pagina 18
... Scottish Highlanders on the map. Previously despised alike by the Lowland Scots, as disorderly savages, and by the Irish as their unlettered poor kinsmen, they were now celebrated throughout Europe as a Kulturvolk which, when England ...
... Scottish Highlanders on the map. Previously despised alike by the Lowland Scots, as disorderly savages, and by the Irish as their unlettered poor kinsmen, they were now celebrated throughout Europe as a Kulturvolk which, when England ...
Pagina 19
... Scottish Highlanders were, in origin, merely Irishmen who had crossed from one island to another, it is natural to suppose that originally their dress was the same as that of the Irish. And indeed this is what we find. It is not till ...
... Scottish Highlanders were, in origin, merely Irishmen who had crossed from one island to another, it is natural to suppose that originally their dress was the same as that of the Irish. And indeed this is what we find. It is not till ...
Pagina 20
... ) wearing trews, the other in 'a servill habit', i.e. a belted plaid (not as Stewart supposes a kilt: on this see Dunbar, op. cit., pp. 34-5). 1' On Rawlinson's Scottish venture see Alfred Fell, The Early 20 HUGH TREVOR-ROPER.
... ) wearing trews, the other in 'a servill habit', i.e. a belted plaid (not as Stewart supposes a kilt: on this see Dunbar, op. cit., pp. 34-5). 1' On Rawlinson's Scottish venture see Alfred Fell, The Early 20 HUGH TREVOR-ROPER.
Sommario
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15 | |
The Hunt for the Welsh Past | 43 |
Representing Authority in Victorian India | 165 |
The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa | 211 |
Europe 18701914 | 263 |
Index | 309 |
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