How Societies Remember - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780521270939

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by Paul Connerton (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 128

Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN

Publication Date: November 02, 1989

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