Week 9

Have you answered the course question What are Invented Traditions?

Essay Abstracts

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Lecture Reading

Hobsbawn, E. and Ranger, T. (eds). 1983. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: CU
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Summary of Lecture

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Seminar Reading

Boddy, J. 1995. ‘Managing tradition: “Superstition” and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees’. In W. James (ed.) The Pursuit of Certainty. (Direct Link)

Linnekin, J. 1992. 'On the theory and politics of cultural construction in the Pacific'. Oceania 62(4) 249-263. Try downloading from here. If this doesn't work, search for the journal 'Oceania' in the library e-Catalogue (here) and download from PAO JISC Collection.

Summaries and Notes from Seminar and Reading

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