Traditions and Invented Traditions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23465894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David A Gerber (0000-0002-7972-5228), Alan M Kraut |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 300-318 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | American Immigration and Ethnicity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-137-08615-0_14 |
| OpenAlex | W2488263457 |
| ISBN | 9781137086150 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Migrants never travel from one place to another without baggage. In addition to the material belongings they pack, they bring those dimensions of their culture that are most important to them. From the very first settlers in the Americas, those migrants from somewhere in central Asia who migrated across the land bridge where the Bering Straits are now, to the most recent arrivals from Latin America and Southeast Asia, newcomers have brought traditions that they practiced in their homelands. Such traditions are a part of their identity and remind them of who they are and of their most cherished values no matter how far they may be physically removed from their place of origin. However, traditions are sometimes forgotten or lost or prove inadequate to reflect changes that occur in a group's identity. Then groups frequently engage in a process of inventing traditions. These invented traditions are inauthentic in that they are not transported from a homeland. But they are quite genuine reflections of a group's aspirations and its desire to recall its past in a particular way. Repetition is quite important in legitimizing such invented traditions. Historian Eric Hobsbawm has characterized the process of tradition invention as "formalization and ritualization, characterized by reference to the past, if only by imposing repetition."KeywordsBell TowerChristmas TreePatron SaintItalian ImmigrantLower East SideThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Aesthetics · Art · Bridge (graph theory) · Ethnology · Homeland · Identity (music) · Political science · Politics · Repetition (rhetorical device) · Ritualization · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |