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In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions of memories. Paul Connerton, on the other hand, concentrates on bodily (or 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 until 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 students.

Cognitive psychology --- Sociology of culture --- Social psychology --- Memory --- Rites and ceremonies --- Mind and body --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects --- Mind and body. --- Social psychology. --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Mémoire --- Esprit et corps --- Rites et cérémonies --- Psychologie sociale --- Aspect social --- Aspect psychologique --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Retention (Psychology) --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Brain --- Dualism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Intellect --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- History as a science --- psychohistory --- rituals [events] --- memory --- Social Sciences --- Memory - Social aspects --- Rites and ceremonies - Psychological aspects --- memory [psychological concept]