How Societies Remember by Jack Goody, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Paul Connerton

128 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective slow-paced

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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 ar...

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