Fascinating, if dry, recasting of traditions that most people take for granted.

this book is based on such an interesting concept but is definitely not written for a general audience. academics write a book that most people would actually enjoy reading challenge !!

This is an intelligent pioneering study into the way traditions are formed and reformed in the present. More work has been done since then, but this still remains a useful starting point on the question.

Raises some important and interesting points. Impressed they used the correct plural of "Eisteddfod".

A fascinating group of papers on how "ancient traditions" are invented by societies that have, for one reason or another, lost touch with their true historical past. Without knowing it, of course, I have used this notion in "Eirelan," whose latter-day Celts imagine themselves closely connected to the ancient Celts but with many differences in outlook. They have "invented their traditions" over some ten centuries, and now (meaning "now" in 3953 AD) it is almost impossible to separate true historical traditions from the invented ones.

Well worth reading. You will be startled by much of what you find in this book.

Liam

Essendo una raccolta di saggi di diversi autori, su diversi argomenti, non è un libro omogeneo per stile o per interesse. I capitoli scritti da Hobsbawn sono sempre molto ben scritto e interessanti. Fra gli altri un po' di alti e bassi. Comunque, sempre di buon livello. Forse mi sarei aspettato un respire un po' più ampio. Si parla quasi sempre del mondo britannico.
Il tema però è davvero di grande importanza e interesse. Dice molto anche del nostro presente.

Honestly, a really tough read.

The historical case-studies in this collection, though largely focusing upon cultural institutions that emerged within the British empire of the 18th and 19th centuries, nevertheless illustrates certain general principles of adaptation to social change, and functional similarities in their realization across diverse contexts. From colonial Africa and India, where indigenous customs were reified and redeployed by European powers to legitimate their own authority, and imported traditions were implemented to form and manipulate new social institutions, to the United States at the turn of the 20th century where participation in amateur team and leisure sports became a significant marker of elite identity within an expanding middle class, the forms and emphases of public ritual have been periodically renovated in response to continuously evolving social, political, and economic realities. As the status quo changes, so too must the institutions that justify and attest to its immutable continuity.

a great book edited by "Stalin's cheerleader" and some other guy that goodreads didnt even credit

Tells us traditional tartans and Scottish dress are recent inventions. On the other hand, very similar plaid twill woven woolen cloth, and tam o'shanters, have been found, dating from 800 BCE. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber, pp. 17-21.

2018-09-17 15:56:33
精英与现代中国课程3，第七章《1870至1914年欧洲大量创造的传统》，讨论了以英、法、德为核心的塑造出来的历史与现实政治的关系。有长评，读领域之外的书压力很大。

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