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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Romantic Documents and Political Monuments: The Meaning-Fulfillment of History in 19th-Century Czech Nationalism
Contributor:
Lass, Andrew
imprint:
American Anthropological Association, 1988
Published in:American Ethnologist
Language:
English
ISSN:
0094-0496;
1548-1425
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>Nineteenth-century Czech manuscript forgery and the production of cultural monuments inspired by the texts illustrate the relationship between invention and erasure that underlies the notion of selective tradition. The success of nationalist movements depends on meaning-fulfilling acts through which tradition is concretized as part of the everyday spatiotemporal world. The process is paralleled by the forgetting and dismantling of these concretizations. This suggests that history, in spite of its concern for continuity and factuality, is by definition self-destructive and that there exists a close relationship between literal-mindedness and the hegemonic power of selective traditions. [Bohemia, manuscript forgery, selective traditions, nationalism, concretization, anthropology of history, phenomenology]</p>