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How societies remember / Paul Connerton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Themes in the social sciencesPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989Description: 1 online resource (121 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461949053
  • 146194905X
  • 0511628064
  • 9780511628061
  • 9781107387140
  • 1139881574
  • 9781139881579
  • 1107384621
  • 9781107384620
  • 1107383536
  • 9781107383531
  • 1107398398
  • 9781107398399
  • 1107389976
  • 9781107389977
  • 1107387140
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: How societies rememberDDC classification:
  • 302/.12 22
LOC classification:
  • BF378.S65 C66 1989eb
Other classification:
  • 71.57
  • CV 7500
  • MR 6300
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Social memory -- Commemorative ceremonies -- Bodily practices.
Summary: In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how practices of a non-inscribed kind are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on inscribed transmissions of memories. Connerton, on the other hand, concentrates on 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 up till 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 student. -- from back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-115) and indexes.

Introduction -- Social memory -- Commemorative ceremonies -- Bodily practices.

Print version record.

In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how practices of a non-inscribed kind are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on inscribed transmissions of memories. Connerton, on the other hand, concentrates on 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 up till 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 student. -- from back cover.

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