tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post3217451547767086428..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Cultural authenticity and the marketDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-72244510500968828812009-06-11T21:52:02.219-04:002009-06-11T21:52:02.219-04:00Thanks for these good suggestions about some sourc...Thanks for these good suggestions about some sources in anthropology on this topic. Your comment reminds me that Ben Anderson's "Imagined Communities" is also relevant -- though he doesn't turn this construct in the direction of artifacts so far as I remember.Dan Littlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-66751006348430791802009-06-11T21:15:48.934-04:002009-06-11T21:15:48.934-04:00Eric Hobsbawm's work on 'invented traditio...Eric Hobsbawm's work on 'invented traditions' might be a good place to start, though that terminology has lost favor.<br /><br /><br />This topic came under discussion recently on an anthropology list serve. A large number of leads into the literature were recommended:<br /><br />Handler & Linnekin's "Tradition, Genuine or<br />Spurious" (Journal of American Folklore, 1984)<br /><br />Jean Jackson's "Is There a Way to Talk about<br />Making Culture without Making Enemies?" (Dialectical Anthropology, 1989) <br /><br />Charles Briggs' "The Politics of Discursive Authority in Research on the<br />'Invention of Tradition'" (Cultural Anthropology, 1996)<br /><br />In addition to the "classic" sort of debates (e.g. Keesing and Tonkinson<br />1982; Keesing 1989, 1993; Hobsbawm 1983; Hanson 1989; Trask 1991;<br />Jolly 1992; Linnekin 1992; Thomas 1992; Tonkinson 1993, 1997; White and<br />Lindstrom 1993; Otto and Thomas 1997; Turner 1997; and Wassman 1998), I'd<br />have a look at Stuart Hall (1996) and Tania Li (2000).<br /><br /><br />Hall, S. (1996). On postmodernism and articulation: An interview with Stuart<br />Hall, edited by Lawrence Grossberg. In Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in<br />Cultural Studies. eds D. Morley and K.-H. Chen, pp. 131-150. London and New<br />York: Routledge.<br /><br />Hanson, A. (1989). The making of the Maori: Culture invention and its logic.<br />American Anthropologist 91, 890-902.<br /><br />Keesing, R. M. (1989). Creating the past: Custom and identity in the<br />contemporary Pacific. The Contemporary Pacific 1(1), 19-42.<br /><br /><br />Thomas, N. (1992a). The inversion of tradition. American Ethnologist 19(2),<br />213-229.<br /><br /><br />Tonkinson, R. (1993). Understanding 'tradition'--ten years on.<br />Anthropological Forum 6(4), 597-606.<br /><br /><br />Wassman, J. (1998). Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices<br />of Identity Construction. Oxford and New York: Berg.<br /><br />White, G. M. and L. Lindstrom (1993). Custom Today. (Special Issue).<br />Anthropological Forum 6(4).<br /><br />Hobsbawm, E. and T. Ranger (eds.). 1983. The Invention of Tradition.<br />Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<br /><br />Tuleja, Tad (editor). 1997. Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.<br /><br />Spear, T.<br />2003 Neo-Traditionalism And The Limits Of Invention In British Colonial Africa. The Journal of African History 44(01):3--27.rosebudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-7597168516999676672009-06-11T19:46:57.228-04:002009-06-11T19:46:57.228-04:00I'm not familiar with that one. However, if yo...I'm not familiar with that one. However, if your interested one of his books is available for free on the web here: http://mediatedcultures.net/phantom/phantom.htmlJacob Goldsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16148471519418947952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-23434487794873852282009-06-10T22:38:55.479-04:002009-06-10T22:38:55.479-04:00Thanks for the tip -- this looks interesting. The...Thanks for the tip -- this looks interesting. The book I was able to find on Amazon is <i>Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art</i>. Is this one of the books you would recommend?Dan Littlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-68200196485769371262009-06-10T22:32:14.376-04:002009-06-10T22:32:14.376-04:00Edmund Carpenter's work on the way that so-cal...Edmund Carpenter's work on the way that so-called traditional art is catered to be sold to western tourists is really worth looking into, if you're looking for something more in depth on the subject.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com