ISBN:
9781107604674
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (330 p)
Series Statement:
Canto Classics
Parallel Title:
Print version The Invention of Tradition
DDC:
390
Keywords:
Folklore ; History
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Sociology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Inventing Traditions; 2 The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland; 3 From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh Past in the Romantic Period; MERRIE WALES AND ITS PASSING; THE EISTEDDFOD; DRUIDS ANCIENT AND MODERN; THE REDISCOVERY OF THE CELTS; FROM THE 'GIBBERISH OF TAPHYDOM' TO THE 'LANGUAGE OF HEAVEN'; 'LAND OF SONG'; DAME WALES; THE NEW CAMBRIAN VALHALLA; SPIRITS OF THE PLACE - LANDSCAPE AND MYTH; A HERALDRY OF CULTURE; A TURNING POINT: ' THE TREASON OF THE BLUE BOOKS'; CONCLUSION: THE ELUSIVE QUARRY
Description / Table of Contents:
4 The Context, Performance and Meaning of Ritual: The British Monarchy and the 'Invention of Tradition', c. 1820-1977I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; 5 Representing Authority in Victorian India; CULTURAL CONTRADICTIONS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A RITUAL IDIOM; EVENTS INTO STRUCTURE: THE MEANING OF THE UPRISING OF 1857; THE FORMALIZATION AND REPRESENTATION OF THE RITUAL IDIOM: THE IMPERIAL ASSEMBLAGE OF 1877; THE ROYAL TITLES ACT OF 1876; THE INTENTIONS OF THE PLANNERS OF THE IMPERIAL ASSEMBLAGE; COLONIAL SOCIOLOGY AND THE ASSEMBLAGE
Description / Table of Contents:
THE ENACTMENT OF THE COLONIAL SOCIOLOGY OF INDIA: THE INVITEES TO THE IMPERIAL ASSEMBLAGELOGISTICS AND THE PHYSICAL PLANNING: THE CAMPS, THE AMPHITHEATRE AND DECORATIVE MOTIFS; THE AMPHITHEATRE AND PRECEDENCE; THE IMPERIAL ASSEMBLAGE; CONCLUSION; 6 The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa; INTRODUCTION; EUROPEAN INVENTED TRADITION AND THE AFRICAN EMPIRE; BRINGING AFRICANS INTO THE TRADITIONS OF GOVERNANCE; NEW TRADITIONS OF MONARCHY IN COLONIAL AFRICA; AFRICAN ATTEMPTS TO MAKE USE OF EUROPEAN NEO-TRADITION; EUROPEANS AND 'TRADITION' IN AFRICA; AFRICAN MANIPULATION OF INVENTED CUSTOM
Description / Table of Contents:
THE USE OF 'TRADITION' BY ELDERS AGAINST YOUTHTHE USE OF 'TRADITION' BY MEN AGAINST WOMEN; THE MANIPULATION OF 'TRADITION' AGAINST SUBJECTS AND IMMIGRANTS; CONCLUSION; 7 Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914; I; II; III; IV; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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