Questions of Tradition

Print version:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction: What Is Tradition When It Is Not 'Invented'? A Historiographical Introduction

Part I

1 Narratives of the Treaty Table: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of Tradition

2 Disappearing Acts: Traditions of Exposure, Traditions of Enclosure, and Iroquois Masks

3 The Tradition of African Art: Reflections on the Social Life of a Subject

4 Zwarte Piet's Bal Masqué

5 Traditional Futures

Part II

6 Tacit Knowledge: Tradition and Its Aftermath

7 The Traditions of Liberalism

8 Law/Custom/Tradition: Perspectives from the Common Law

9 Tradition, Ethical Knowledge, and Multicultural Societies

10 Ideas about Tradition in the Life and Work of Philippe Ariès

11 Tradition as Politics and the Politics of Tradition

Contributors