How societies remember / Paul Connerton.

By:

Connerton, Paul

Material type: Text

TextSeries: 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

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Electronic books.

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

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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.

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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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