num_pages: 121
description: 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.
language: English
title: How Societies Remember
titlecomplete: How Societies Remember (Themes in the Social Sciences)
genres: Cultural Studies, Society, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Cultural, Psychology, Theory, Sociology, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 330
series: Themes in the Social Sciences
publisher: Cambridge University Press