1. How Societies Remember-Paul Connerton

-to study the social formation of memory is to study those acts of transfer that make remembering in common possible" (p.39)

-commemorative ceremonies; ritual as coded representation (Richard Wollheim's psychoanlaytic explanation); the performativeness of ritual (p.58), the formalism of ritual language (p.59)

-non-textual and non-cognitive: incorporating practices-habits/"habitual memory sedimented in the body" (p.102), bodily, less paid attention to in interpreting social history etc but should be more looked at to understand cultural histories.  

-inscribing practices-text, language etc-lots of attention to scrutinise its meanings etc

Habits-interested to read: D. Sudnow, Ways of the Hand: the Organization of Improvised Conduct (London, 1978)  -jazz piano playing, how the body learns over time how to play piano more smoothly

5-6 Dec, 2016; re-read: June-3 July, 2017
Cambridge University Press, 1989