How Societies Remember (Themes in the Social Sciences)
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Book details
- Author
- Paul Connerton
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Social Sciences
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780521270939
- ISBN-10
- 0521270936
- Vendor: Mia Karts
How Societies Remember (Themes in the Social Sciences)
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ISBN: 0521270936
Author: Connerton, Paul
Condition: New
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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