Reconfiguring tradition(s) in Europe: an introduction to the special issue

• Autor(a) principal: Isnart, Cyril
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Testa, Alessando, Bartel, Bruno Ferraz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antropolítica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/antropolitica/article/view/61948
• topic: Tradição; Etnologia; Ritual; Patrimônio; Mudança cultural.; Tradition; Ethnology; Ritual; Heritage; Cultural change.

“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: reenchantment, ritualization, and heritage-making. We hope to forge new paths towards the exploration of all things “traditional” and their cultural dynamics.