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11. What’s New is Old Again: The Αναπαλαίωση of Tradition


 
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1. Title Title of document 11. What’s New is Old Again: The Αναπαλαίωση of Tradition - Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Vaia Touna; University of Alberta ;
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religion; Cultural Anthropology;sociology
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) Tradition; Traditional Villages; Greece; Anachronism; Restorations' Authenticity; European Union; UNESCO; Russell T. McCutcheon
 
5. Subject Subject classification Religion: general (HRA)
 
6. Description Abstract Vaia Touna looks to and uses the data of a small village in Central Macedonia, Greece to introduce Russell T. McCutcheon’s “The Resiliency of Conceptual Anachronisms: On the Limits of “the West” and “Religion” wherein this essay and Touna’s introduction engage seemingly distinct data sets to suggest that scholars, and their use of tradition, rely on and make possible various authorizing acts. Looking to two villages—one that closes at night and where pretty much no one really lives — Touna suggests “that we may now begin to understand about claims of tradition” work and furthermore, how strategic social actors construct their representations of the past to suit their present social, economic, political needs. That is, how they authorize their present by linking it to a past that suits these practical interests. Tradition is not a thing unto itself, but a notion offered through reification and manipulations of time, and uncritical, unreflexive, anachronistic uses of methodologies inherited from disciplinary silos.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 25-Sep-2015
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/24315
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.24315
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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19. Rights Copyright and permissions Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd