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How societies remember /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
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| Colección: | Themes in the social sciences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (121 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-115) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781461949053 146194905X 0511628064 9780511628061 9781107387140 1139881574 9781139881579 1107384621 9781107384620 1107383536 9781107383531 1107398398 9781107398399 1107389976 9781107389977 1107387140 |