Tradition and Agency

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Tradition and Agency is written by Ton Otto and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 8779349528 (ISBN 10) and 9788779349520 (ISBN 13).

The publication of the anthology The Invention of Tradition two decades ago generated an intensive, productive and sometimes confusing debate about issues of cultural politics and continuity. This new book follows up on the debate in two ways. In a substantive introduction the editors disentangle some of the conceptual knots and assess the relevance of the scholarship on invented traditions for an understanding of the relationship between culture and agency. In addition, nine chapters exemplify and develop different aspects of the theoretical discussions through selected case studies from five different regions-Europe, Africa, Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific.