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How Societies Remember (Themes in the Social Sciences)

By Paul Connerton

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
0521270936, 9780521270939, 0521249481
LCC
BF378.S65 C66 1989
Open Library ID
OL2188819M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6922785 bytes)
Edition
reprinted 1999
Pages
63\63
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written practices and how they are transmitted. This study concentrates on incorporated practices and provides an account of how these things are transmitted in and as traditions. The author argues that images and recollected knowledge of the past are conveyed and sustained by ritual performances, and that performative memory is bodily. This is an essential aspect of social memory that until now has been badly neglected.

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