How societies remember / Paul Connerton.
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,...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
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| Series: | Themes in the social sciences.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Social memory
- Commemorative ceremonies
- Bodily practices.