How Societies Remember

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
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/02/1989
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780521270939