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Tradition and agency : tracing cultural continuity and invention / edited by Ton Otto & Poul Pedersen.

Contributor(s): Otto, Ton | Pedersen, Poul
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Aarhus, Denmark ; Oakville, Conn. : Aarhus University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 355 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 8779341381 (alk. paper); 9788779341388 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Politics and culture | Manners and customsLOC classification: HM621 | .T7 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Disentangling traditions : culture, agency and power / Ton Otto & Poul Pedersen -- 'Be proud to be Bwile : it is your tribe' : ethnicity, political jubilees and traditions of origins among the Bwile of Zambia / Pierre Petit -- Tradition invented and inherited in West Africa : a study of Loma cultural identity / Christian Kordt Hojbjerg -- The cow, the cheese and the anthropologist : the revival of traditional practices in rural France / Denis Chevallier -- Padanian identity : ethnogenesis as a political strategy / Pietro Scarduelli -- Cherishing the nation's time and space : Lithuanian identity and the maintenance of tradition / Andreas Roepstorff & Ausra Simoniukstyte -- On the genealogy of Sasi : transformations of an imagined tradition in Eastern Indonesia / Nils Bubandt -- 'Ol i kam long hul bilong Wotnana' (they come from the hole of Wotnana) : how a Papua New Guinean artefact became traditional / Roberta Colombo Dougoud -- 'No matter that modern world' - an aboriginal approach to a polychronic past : a case study from Northern Australia / Britta Duelke -- The politics of indigenous - or ingenious - tradition : some thoughts on the Australian and New Zealand situation / Erich Kolig -- Postscript / Terence Ranger.

"Most chapters derive from papers that were originally presented during the 5th biennial EASA conference in Frankfurt in 1998"--P.8.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disentangling traditions : culture, agency and power / Ton Otto & Poul Pedersen -- 'Be proud to be Bwile : it is your tribe' : ethnicity, political jubilees and traditions of origins among the Bwile of Zambia / Pierre Petit -- Tradition invented and inherited in West Africa : a study of Loma cultural identity / Christian Kordt Hojbjerg -- The cow, the cheese and the anthropologist : the revival of traditional practices in rural France / Denis Chevallier -- Padanian identity : ethnogenesis as a political strategy / Pietro Scarduelli -- Cherishing the nation's time and space : Lithuanian identity and the maintenance of tradition / Andreas Roepstorff & Ausra Simoniukstyte -- On the genealogy of Sasi : transformations of an imagined tradition in Eastern Indonesia / Nils Bubandt -- 'Ol i kam long hul bilong Wotnana' (they come from the hole of Wotnana) : how a Papua New Guinean artefact became traditional / Roberta Colombo Dougoud -- 'No matter that modern world' - an aboriginal approach to a polychronic past : a case study from Northern Australia / Britta Duelke -- The politics of indigenous - or ingenious - tradition : some thoughts on the Australian and New Zealand situation / Erich Kolig -- Postscript / Terence Ranger.

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