How Societies Remember AUTH-11909558 from New York Times headlines

from New York Times headlines on terrorism to passages in the Koran and excerpts from the Gospels

Sharon and her husband

If you had told him that he'd be helping Otis

the wisdom that comes through the passing of time

How Societies Remember AUTH-11909558 from New York Times headlinesMost 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