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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... modern form it is the product of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 'Traditions' which appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented. Anyone familiar with the colleges of ancient British ...
... modern form it is the product of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 'Traditions' which appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented. Anyone familiar with the colleges of ancient British ...
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... modern world and the attempt to structure at least some parts of social life within it as unchanging and invariant, that makes the 'invention of tradition ' so interesting for historians of the past two centuries. 'Tradition' in this ...
... modern world and the attempt to structure at least some parts of social life within it as unchanging and invariant, that makes the 'invention of tradition ' so interesting for historians of the past two centuries. 'Tradition' in this ...
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... modern significance until other people stopped wearing wigs. Inventing traditions, it is assumed here, is essentially a process of formalization and ritualization, characterized by reference to the past, if only by imposing repetition ...
... modern significance until other people stopped wearing wigs. Inventing traditions, it is assumed here, is essentially a process of formalization and ritualization, characterized by reference to the past, if only by imposing repetition ...
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... modern' ones. Broadly speaking this is so, but one must beware of making the further assumptions, firstly that older forms of community and authority structure, and consequently the traditions associated with them, were unadaptable and ...
... modern' ones. Broadly speaking this is so, but one must beware of making the further assumptions, firstly that older forms of community and authority structure, and consequently the traditions associated with them, were unadaptable and ...
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... modern federal state in the 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 ...
... modern federal state in the 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 ...
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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