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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... centuries. 'Traditions' which appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented. Anyone ... nineteenth-century l rebuilding of the British parliament, and the equally deliberate decision. I. Introduction ...
... centuries. 'Traditions' which appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented. Anyone ... nineteenth-century l rebuilding of the British parliament, and the equally deliberate decision. I. Introduction ...
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... nineteenth-century liberalism and more recent ' modernization ' theory that such formalizations are not confined to so-called 'traditional' societies, but also have their place, in one form or another, in 'modern' ones. Broadly speaking ...
... nineteenth-century liberalism and more recent ' modernization ' theory that such formalizations are not confined to so-called 'traditional' societies, but also have their place, in one form or another, in 'modern' ones. Broadly speaking ...
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... nineteenth century, has been brilliantly studied by Rudolf Braun,'1 who has the advantage of training in a discipline ('Volkskunde') which lends itself to such studies, and in a country where its modernization has not been set back by ...
... nineteenth century, has been brilliantly studied by Rudolf Braun,'1 who has the advantage of training in a discipline ('Volkskunde') which lends itself to such studies, and in a country where its modernization has not been set back by ...
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... nineteenth-century liberal ideology of social change systematically failed to provide for the social and authority ties taken for granted in earlier societies, and created voids which might have to be filled by invented practices. The ...
... nineteenth-century liberal ideology of social change systematically failed to provide for the social and authority ties taken for granted in earlier societies, and created voids which might have to be filled by invented practices. The ...
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... nineteenth and twentieth centuries occupied or occupy a much smaller place than old traditions do in, say, old agrarian societies.“ 'What is done' structures the days, seasons and life-cycles of twentieth-century western men and women ...
... nineteenth and twentieth centuries occupied or occupy a much smaller place than old traditions do in, say, old agrarian societies.“ 'What is done' structures the days, seasons and life-cycles of twentieth-century western men and women ...
Sommario
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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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