Postmodernism  and the reclaiming of tradition

dc.contributor.author	Piper, Laurence
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-28T12:34:18Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-28T12:34:18Z
dc.date.issued	1998
dc.description.abstract	‘The history of the Zulu people is the history of myself’.1 In Africa, as elsewhere, the notion of tradition is bound up with the discourses of ethnicity and nationalism. Typically invoking pre-colonial identities as the basis of peoplehood, such narratives of common descent are imbued with a strong sense of ‘pastness’, orientating the modern self in traditional terms. Anderson explains this invocation of tradition as a feature of the inverted nature of ethnic narratives of common descent.2 More common are accounts which focus on the ‘loss of meaning’ brought about by modernisation and the psychic security offered by an idealised past.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Piper, L. (1998). Postmodernism and the reclaiming of tradition. A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 92, 97-112	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	10.3167/004058198782486000
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10566/5792
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Berghahn Books	en_US
dc.subject	Reclaiming of tradition	en_US
dc.subject	Zulu people	en_US
dc.subject	Africa	en_US
dc.subject	Ethnicity	en_US
dc.subject	Nationality	en_US
dc.title	Postmodernism and the reclaiming of tradition	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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