Invention of Tradition

Name: Invention of Tradition
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ISBN: 9781107604674

ISBN-10: 1107604672

ISBN-13: 9781107604674

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Authors: Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger

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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…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




Introduction: inventing traditions




The invention of tradition: the Highland tradition of Scotland




From a death to a view: the hunt for the Welsh past in the Romantic period




The context, performance and meaning of ritual: the British Monarchy and the invention of tradition, c.1820-1977




Representing authority of tradition in Victorian India




The invention of tradition in Colonial Africa




Mass-producing traditions: Europe, 1870-1914