The Invention of Tradition
Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger (ed.). . Cambridge University Press, 1983.
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The general study of how traditions are assembled. Cited here to make the point that this is not a problem peculiar to modern Paganism: the same processes produced the Highland kilt and much of the British monarchy's ceremonial.
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- Kupala and Koliada
- For the general process by which national traditions are assembled, which is European-wide and not peculiar to any one revival.
- The maypole
- For the general process of nineteenth-century reconstruction, which is not peculiar to this custom.
- The Wheel of the Year
- For the general process, which is not peculiar to modern Paganism.