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The Invention of tradition

Author: E J Hobsbawm; T O Ranger
Publisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1984]
Series: Past and present publications.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : First paperback editionView all editions and formats
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This book explores examples of all these types of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish "national culture" and brings together historians and anthropologists and makes a contribution to the growing study of public ritual, and the role of symbolism in ideology and the problemns of cultural nationlist historiography.
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Genre/Form: Folk literature
Folklore
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: E J Hobsbawm; T O Ranger
ISBN: 9780521269858 0521269857 0521246458 9780521246453 0521437733 9780521437738
OCLC Number: 13112602
Description: vi, 320 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Inventing traditions / Eric Hobsbawm --
The invention of tradition : the highland tradition of Scotland / Hugh Trevor-Roper --
From a death to a view : the hunt for the Welsh past in the romantic period / Prys Morgan --
The context, performance and meaning of ritual : the British monarchy and the 'invention of tradition', c. 1820-1977 / David Cannadine --
Representing authority in Victorian India / Bernard S. Cohn --
The invention of tradition in colonial Africa / Terence Ranger --
Mass-producing traditions : Europe, 1870-1914 / Eric Hobsbawm.
Series Title: Past and present publications.
Other Titles: Tradition
Responsibility: edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger.

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