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Questions of Tradition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition) Loot Price: R969
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Questions of Tradition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Mark Phillips, Gordon Schochet

Questions of Tradition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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 no clear concept of tradition is to be found in these writings; since the very notion of 'invented tradition' presupposes a prior concept of tradition and is empty without one, this debunking usage has done as much to obscure the idea as to clarify it. In the absence of a shared concept, the various disciplines have created their own vocabularies to address the subject. Useful as they are, these specialized vocabularies (of which the best known include hybridity, canonicity, diaspora, paradigm, and contact zones) separate the disciplines and therefore necessarily create only a collection of parochial and disjointed approaches.

Until now, there has been no concerted attempt to put the various disciplines in conversation with one another around the problem of tradition. Combining discussions of the idea of tradition by major scholars from a variety of disciplines with synoptic, synthesizing essays, "Questions of Tradition" will initiate a renewal of interest in this vital subject.

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: October 2004
First published: 2004
Editors: Mark Phillips • Gordon Schochet
Dimensions: 229 x 154 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-8272-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > General
LSN: 0-8020-8272-6
Barcode: 9780802082725

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