This thread is super interesting, both for the frames recruited (tradition, superstition, christian), and for how those work against each other in inventing traditions, and under an ethnogenetic framework in negotiating across difference.https://twitter.com/pkarnet/status/1048939867458158592 …
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Isn't it something to see the Mt. Elgon cite, its like a public court, with no judges, a dispersed crowd gets to decide together, to call on evidence, witnesses, to defy or follow authority, to create and situate tradition in and for the present.
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We see this across the land, people claim ancient traditions as definitive of community, of social reproduction, but lingering reveals that they are always negotiating, young, old, on the street, in the church, at funerals, at markets. We can always make new customs.
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Thinking of these inventions as happening before our eyes in processes of ethnogenesis, this Simatei Tirop paper's useful - Kalenjin popular music and contestation of national space in Kenya ('contestation of Kalenjin space' could've been plausible title) h/t
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