Questions of Tradition /

Questions of Tradition / / ed. by Mark Phillips, Gordon Schochet.

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Tradition is a central concern for a wide range of academic disciplines interested in problems of transmitting culture across generations. Yet, the concept itself has received remarkably little analysis. A substantial literature has grown up around the notion of 'invented tradition,' but n...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bal, Mieke,
Clifford, James,
Hutton, Patrick H.,
Laforet, Andrea,
Lieberman, David,
Mckeon, Michael,
Phillips, Mark Salber,
Phillips, Ruth B.,
Phillipsh, Mark Salber,
Rodger, Daniel T.,
Schochet, Gordon,
Steiner, Christopher B.,
Warnke, Georgia,
HerausgeberIn:
Phillips, Mark,
Schochet, Gordon,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2004
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: What Is Tradition When It Is Not 'Invented'? A Historiographical Introduction
  • Part I
  • 1. Narratives of the Treaty Table: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of Tradition
  • 2. Disappearing Acts: Traditions of Exposure, Traditions of Enclosure, and Iroquois Masks
  • 3. The Tradition of African Art: Reflections on the Social Life of a Subject
  • 4. Zwarte Piet's Bal Masque
  • 5. Traditional Futures
  • Part II
  • 6. Tacit Knowledge: Tradition and Its Aftermath
  • 7. The Traditions of Liberalism
  • 8. Law/Custom/Tradition: Perspectives from the Common Law
  • 9. Tradition, Ethical Knowledge, and Multicultural Societies
  • 10. Ideas about Tradition in the Life and Work of Philippe Aries
  • 11. Tradition as Politics and the Politics of Tradition
  • Contributors

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