How Societies Remember by Paul Connerton

How Societies Remember by Paul Connerton

In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions of memories. Paul Connerton, on the other hand, concentrates on bodily (or incorporated) practices, and so questions the currently dominant idea that literary texts may be taken as a metaphor for social practices generally. The author argues that images of the past and recollected knowledge of the past are conveyed and sustained by ritual performances and that performative memory is bodily. Bodily social memory is an essential aspect of social memory, but it is an aspect which has until now been badly neglected. An innovative study, this work should be of interest to researchers into social, political and anthropological thought as well as to graduate and undergraduate students.

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ISBN 13	9780521270939
ISBN 10	0521270936
Titel	How Societies Remember
Autor	Paul Connerton
Serie	Themes In The Social Sciences
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1989-11-02
Seitenanzahl	128
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