Questions of tradition / edited by Mark Salber Phillips and Gordon Schochet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Mark, 1946-

Schochet, Gordon J., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tradition (Philosophy).

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction: What Is Tradition When It Is Not 'Invented'? A Historiographical Introduction / Mark Salber Phillips 3

1 Narratives of the Treaty Table: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of Tradition / Andrea Laforet 33

2 Disappearing Acts: Traditions of Exposure, Traditions of Enclosure, and Iroquois Masks / Ruth B. Phillips 56

3 The Tradition of African Art: Reflections on the Social Life of a Subject / Christopher B. Steiner 88

4 Zwarte Piet's Bal Masque / Mieke Bal 110

5 Traditional Futures / James Clifford 152

6 Tacit Knowledge: Tradition and Its Aftermath / Michael Mckeon 171

7 The Traditions of Liberalism / Daniel T. Rodgers 203

8 Law/Custom/Tradition: Perspectives from the Common Law / David Lieberman 233

9 Tradition, Ethical Knowledge, and Multicultural Societies / Georgia Warnke 258

10 Ideas about Tradition in the Life and Work of Philippe Aries / Patrick H. Hutton 274

11 Tradition as Politics and the Politics of Tradition / Gordon Schochet 296.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802044980

0802082726

OCLC:

54692479