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Title: How Societies Remember
Author: CONNERTON PAUL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/11/1989
Imprint: CAMBRIDGE UNI PRESS
Price: $45.95
Publishing status: Active
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.
Series: Themes in the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780521270939
Weight: 200g
Dimension: 226mm X 150mm
Pages: 128