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2245Invented traditions  

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  • Sets of practices created more or less arbitrarily in order to support an unbroken continuity with the past. Invented traditions impose specific values and norms of behaviour by legitimising them as authentic expressions of historical continuity in order to fulfill social and cultural aspirations and aims.

SOURCE

  • Hobsbawm & Ranger 1983

CONTRIBUTOR

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

CREATOR

  • Tzedopoulos Giorgos (AA)

NOTATION

  • 2245

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https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/2245

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