Translating Tradition

Part of the Longman Topics reader series, Translating Tradition examines how we engage in traditions as family and community members to connect with the past, negotiate the present, and envision the future. This brief collection of readings focuses on the value of tradition's role in shaping our lives. Thought-provoking selections ask students to think about relevant themes: handing down family heirlooms and family legacies; preserving family and community history through story; and exploring cross cultural traditions. Featuring a dual organization, readings in each chapter model a particular rhetorical mode as well as explore a specific theme. Brief apparatus helps students write more thoughtfully in response to the selections and think more critically about the role of tradition in society. Longman Topics are brief, attractive readers on a single complex, but compelling, topic. Featuring about 30 full-length selections, these volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.Beardslee, Karen E. is the author of 'Translating Tradition', published 2003 under ISBN 9780321105776 and ISBN 032110577X.