Questions of tradition
By: edited by Mark Salber Phillips and Gordon Schochet.
Contributors: Phillips, Mark, 1946-; Schochet, Gordon J., 1937-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Tradition (Philosophy)
Description: "The essays in this volume deal in diverse ways with the complexities of cultural transmission and collectively ask, what is tradition when it is not invented? The first essays, rooted in anthropology, art history, and museum studies, are grounded in real case studies that help to challenge and inform the more abstract discussions in the second half of the book devoted, broadly, to intellectual history, philosophy, and politics. Until now, there has been no concerted attempt to put the various disciplines in conversation with one another around the problem of tradition. Combining discussions of the idea of tradition by major scholars from a variety of disciplines with synoptic, synthesizing essays, Questions of Tradition will initiate a renewal of interest in this subject."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Narratives of the treaty table: cultural property and the negotiation of tradition / Andrea Laforet; title: Disappearing acts: traditions of exposure, traditions of enclosure, and Iroquois masks / Ruth B. Phillips; title: The tradition of African art: reflections on the social life of a subject / Christopher B. Steiner; title: Zwarte Piet's Bal Masqué / Mieke Bal; title: Traditional futures / James Clifford; title: Tacit knowledge: tradition and its aftermath / Michael McKeon; title: The traditions of liberalism / Daniel T. Rodgers; title: Law, custom, tradition: perspectives from the common law / David Lieberman; title: Tradition, ethical knowledge, and multicultural societies / Georgia Warnke; title: Ideas about tradition in the life and work of Philippe Ariès / Patrick H. Hutton; title: Tradition as politics and the politics of tradition / Gordon Schochet.