How Societies Remember

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.Connerton, Paul is the author of 'How Societies Remember', published 2004 under ISBN 9780521825702 and ISBN 0521825709.