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How Societies Remember (Themes in the Social Sciences)
How Societies Remember - Themes in the Social Sciences
Author: Paul Connerton
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 perfor...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521270939
ISBN-10: 0521270936
Publication Date: 11/24/1989
Pages: 128
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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