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This book, which treats memory as a cultural ability rather than an individual one, explains how practices that are not based on writing and recording are transmitted from generation to generation within traditions. Most of the studies on memory as a cultural skill focus on conveying the experiences in their recorded form. Connerton, on the other hand, focuses on practices that are described as adapted to the body, that is, integrated with the body, and questions the view that the topic of literary texts, which is dominant today, can be considered as a teaching of social practices in general. Yaar argues that images and remembered knowledge of the past are transmitted and maintained through ritual practices, and therefore memory is physical. Although it constitutes the basic aspect of bodily social memory, it is an aspect of the subject that has been extremely neglected until today.

In this study, Connerton shows that "commemoration ceremonies", which he gives as examples of Jewish holidays, Christian ceremonies, and Muareem mourning ceremonies of poems, are not the monopoly of traditional societies. In this way, he gives a list of the events of an intense Nazi ceremonial calendar and moves on to contemporary ceremonies invented in capitalist bourgeois societies.

Connerton determined why the Bastille raid in 1789, the Bastille raid in 1871, and the Russian victory against France in 1871 were later turned into national celebration days; Israel's uprising against the Romans at Masada in 66 BC and the fact that Salik Irani began to celebrate the founding of the Persian state by Cyrus 2500 years ago with commemoration ceremonies in the twentieth century reveal that they are not at all behind the European nations in this regard.

Connerton reveals the functions of these ceremonies after drawing attention to the paradox of modernity that crushes all kinds of traditions like a roller. This study will attract the attention of readers of all levels as an original memory research supported by social, political and anthropological thought.



Number of Pages: 192

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Printing Year: 2014

Number of Pages: 192

Language Turkish