The Invention of Tradition Book by Eric Hobsbawm (Farsi)

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The Invention of Tradition, edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, is a seminal collection of essays that examines how many practices and symbols perceived as ancient traditions are, in fact, relatively modern constructions designed to serve specific political or ideological purposes. Through case studies from Britain, colonial Africa, and beyond, the contributors explore how elites and institutions have deliberately crafted "traditions" to foster national identity, legitimize authority, or promote social cohesion. Hobsbawm introduces the concept of “invented traditions” as practices that seek to establish continuity with a suitable historic past, even when that past is largely imagined or reconstructed.