The Invention of Tradition
by Hobsbawm, E. J.; Ranger, TerenceEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-03-26
Publisher(s): Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| 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 | |
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