Tradition and Post-Tradition: Four Contemporary Indian Puppeteers

Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Lao Textiles

The Practice of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Japan

“What we would like,” said Obuchi Yasuo, the former mayor of a farm town in northeastern Japan, “is for young people and their employers in Tokyo to consider lifestyle alternatives never possible before. Male and female employees could maintain a spacious residence here in the countryside while commuting to work in the city.” Gazing out across the terraced rice paddies visible through the huge ...

Beyond Tradition

Freedom, Reason, and Tradition

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Freedom, Reason, and Tradition

It is a piece of idle senthentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, or prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application oflegal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in th...