How societies remember

by Connerton, Paul

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Title Statements

Full title :How societies remember / Paul Connerton.

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1989.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:1989.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (121 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781461949053, 146194905X, 0511628064, 9780511628061, 9781107387140, 1139881574, 9781139881579, 1107384621, 9781107384620, 1107383536, 9781107383531, 1107398398, 9781107398399, 1107389976, 9781107389977, 1107387140
oclc:ocn861693036
LC Classification:BF378.S65
Dewey Decimal:302/.12

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

Subjects

71.57 immaterial culture (sociology) Body, Human -- Psychological aspects Ceremoniën Collectief geheugen Corps humain -- Aspect psychologique Costume -- Aspect psychologique Costume -- Psychological aspects Esprit et corps Gedächtnis Kollektives Gedächtnis Mémoire -- Aspect social Mémoire collective -- Aspect social Memory -- Social aspects Mind and body Psicología social Psychologie sociale PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology Psychology, Social Riten Rites and ceremonies -- Psychological a…