The Invention of Tradition Revisited
The Case of Colonial Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20071808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terence Ranger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Pages | 62-111 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth-Century Africa (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-12342-1_3 |
| OpenAlex | W1531512630 |
| ISBN | 9781349123421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 177 |
| References cited | 1 |
As Werner Sollors has remarked, the word ‘invention’ has ‘become a rather popular category in intellectual discourse’. No longer ‘reserved for accounts of technological advances such as the telegraph’, invention has been applied to ‘such diverse phenomena as the invention of culture; of literary history; of childhood as well as the loss of childhood; of motherhood; of kinship; of the self; of America; of the Negro; of the Indian; of the Jew’. Some usages of ‘invention’ have laid so much stress on ‘the importance of language in the social construction of reality’ as ‘to let “reality” disappear behind an inventive language that dissembles it’.1
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Invention · Kinship · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society
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Spirit Discipline Gender, Islam, and Hierarchies of Treatment in Postcolonial Northern Nigeria
Ethnicity and political violence in Africa
Immigrants, 'Traditional' Leaders and the Rhodesian State
An old nationalist in new nationalist times
Introduction
Inventions, imaginings, codifications
To Come Together for Progress
Aids, Politics, and Music in South Africa
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia
Syncretism and Christian Tradition
The Political Logic of Cultural Revival
Elements of Socio-Cultural Positioning in Africa
Ethnic Politics
The Serpent Column
African Diasporas and Postcolonial Africa
A “Frontal Attack on Irrational Elements”
Kenya’s Four Ages of Ethnicity
After Alexander
Panhellenism
Meaning
A New Persian War
Conclusion
Time and Space
Election Campaigns and Political Mobilization In Africa
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies
Stuff Happens, and People Make it Happen
Tradition
The revival of Rwandan culture
Yennayer en Afrique du Nord
‘Back Home in the States’
The medium of instruction in Tanzania
Emulation, Imitation, and Global Consumerism
‘Where Art Thou?’
Retour au Bosquet sacré
The Case for African Leadership Studies and Leadership in Colonial Africa
Ukuri n’ubutungane
Spirit Discipline
Traditional Chieftaincy, Party Politics, and Political Violence in Burkina Faso
Selections from Castaway
“Sinful Propensities”
Punishment and the Political Body
Problems of Violence, States of Terror
The Burden of Louis Congo and the Evolution of Savagery in Colonial Louisiana
Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire
Politics and Violence in Burundi
Colonizing Consent
Born-again Buganda or the limits of traditional resurgence in Africa
Jeunesse et âge adulte en pays kikuyu
The construction of identification with mnemonic engineering—toward a conceptual framework of identity-remembering
Scale Matters
Tradition, Custom, and Otherness
Can the Malay Muslims be Thai enough in Thailand’s far South
The fate of a transitional chief in colonial Acholiland
Medicinal rule and the interdependent duality of power between ntemi (chief) and ngole (queen)
Bright lines and fault lines
Commodity Fetichismo The Holy Spirit, and the turn to Pentecostal and African Independent Churches in Central Mozambique
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Une décolonisation de la sécurité sociale
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"Collaborative" provenance research - About the (im)possibility of smashing colonial frameworks
Defining human rights in the socio-cultural and political context of South Sudan
Inventer des traditions
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The Salt of the Montana
An Abandoned Project
Portrait of a Chief between Past and Present
Painting in Turbulent Times
Terry Ranger
The Bakooki in Buganda
Enduring Colonial Grammars of Self
Training for Model Citizenship
Local communities’ belief in climate change in a rural region of Sub-Saharan Africa
From the few to the many
Communicating Africa”. Researching Mobile Kin Communities Communication Technologies, and Social Transformation in Angola and Cameroon
Capital punishment in precolonial Africa
The ilobolo Debacle in the Postcolonial Era
Shi‘i Islamic cosmopolitanism and the transformation of religious authority in Senegal
The Wars of Who Belongs Where
Individualistic and Collectivistic Orientations
Legal Pluralism and the Future of Personal Family Laws in Africa
The growth of the literature on Afro‐American, Latin American and African Pentecostalism
Locating and Dislocating Gender in Rural Zimbabwe
Las magníficas celebraciones del IV Centenario del Descubrimiento del Estrecho de Magallanes y los horrorosos sucesos de la Federación Obrera (Hispanismo e invención de la tradición en 1920)
Native Foreigners and the Ambiguity of Order and Identity
Penser les intermédiaires coloniaux
Post-colonial nature conservation in Southern Africa
Land, politics, and Buganda's ‘indigenous’ colonial state
Constituencies of Control’ – Collective Punishments in Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–55
On Accumulation and Empire
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies
The Contradictory Position of 'Tradition' in African Nationalist Discourse
Graves, Houses of Pain and Execution
Corruption and the postocolonial state
History, Historiography and the Production of Knowledge
State, nation, identity
| Unique citing works | 177 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,53 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 167 |