Reconfiguring Tradition(s) in Europe

An Introduction to the Special Issue

Bibliographic Data

ID7768211
AuthorsA Testa (0000-0003-4060-651X, Charles University), Cyril Isnart (0000-0001-9251-1542, Aix-Marseille Université)
Year2020
Volume50
Issue1
Publication date2020-08-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnologia Europaea (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0425-4597 • E-ISSN: 1604-3030
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.16995/ee.1917
OpenAlexW3005746388
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited63

Tradition" has been a key concept and object of European ethnology from the foundation of the discipline all the way to intangible cultural heritage policies today. A focus has been given to the cultural and social circulations and permutations affecting traditional facts and has shown the plasticity of "traditions" to (ever-)changing social conditions. Understood as "uses of the past", these mainly political and sociological understandings of what "tradition" means today need to be complemented with a view on the emotional aspects of this peculiarly human way of imagining and experiencing the world. This text introduces three notions which highlight the experiential dimension of tradition: re-enchantment, ritualization, and heritage-making. We hope to forge new paths towards the exploration of all things "traditional" and their cultural dynamics

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