How Societies Remember (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521270939)

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.

Author: Paul Connerton
ISBN-10: 0521270936
ISBN-13: 9780521270939
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/1989
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d