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How Societies Remember (Themes in the Social Sciences)
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Price: $22.54
Author: Paul Connerton
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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 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 has been badly neglected.
How Modernity Forgets
Price: $24.99
Author: Paul Connerton
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how modern society affects our ability to remember things. It takes ideas from Francis Yates classic work, 'The Art of Memory', which viewed memory as being dependent on stability, and argues that today's world is full of change, making 'forgetting' characteristic of contemporary society. We live our lives at great speed; cities have become so enormous that they are unmemorable; consumerism has become disconnected from the labour process; urban architecture has a short life-span; and social relationships are less clearly defined - all of which has eroded the foundations on which we build and share our memories. Providing a profound insight into the effects of modern society, this book is a must-read for anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and philosophers, as well as anyone interested in social theory and the contemporary western world.
Linkages: A Content-Based Integrated Skills Program (College ESL)
Price: $50.95
Author: Connerton
Manufacturer: Heinle ELT
A content-based integrated skills text that bridges the gap between language learning and the acquisition of academic knowledge.
The Tragedy of Enlightenment: An Essay on the Frankfurt School (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)
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Author: Paul Connerton
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
First published in 1980, this essay on the Frankfurt School deals with one of the most important threads in the story of cultural migration from Europe which began in the 1930s. For long best known in the English-speaking world through the influence of Herbert Marcuse, the school played a unique role in the history of the intellectual emigration, since its core members, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, returned to Germany after the Second World War to reconstitute the Institute for Social Research, while the tradition has subsequently been renewed by a post-war generation centred around the social theorist Jurgen Habermas. The purpose of this book is to convey an overall sense of the continuities and discontinuities in the concerns of these representative figures over two generations. It seeks to do this by showing the way in which the experience of fascism shaped their interpretation of modern society as a whole, and by setting their work within the context of certain cultural conventions of German intellectual history.
The Connerton Name in History
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Author: Ancestry.com
Manufacturer: Ancestry.com
This book is part of the Our Name in History series, a collection of fascinating facts and statistics, alongside short historical commentary, created to tell the story of previous generations who have shared this name. The information in this book is a compendium of research and data pulled from census records, military records, ships' logs, immigrant and port records, as well as other reputable sources. Topics include:
Plus, the "Discover Your Family" section provides tools and guidance on how you can get started learning more about your own family history.
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Nearly 300,000 titles are currently available in the Our Name in History series, compiled from Billions of records by the world's largest online resource of family history, Ancestry.com.
The Connerton Name in History
Price: $29.95
Author: Ancestry.co.uk The Generations Network
Manufacturer: Ancestry.co.uk
The Connerton Name in History is a customized book offering a unique blend of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary about the Connerton name. The book is just one of an entire series of family name books in the Our Name in History collection. Each book in the collection is printed on demand and is compiled from hundreds of millions of records from the world's largest online resource of family history, Ancestry.co.uk. This particular book follows the Connerton family name through history and makes the perfect gift for your family members and anyone interested in the Connerton name. In the book you'll find out about where people with the Connerton last name originated. You may discover the countries and ports they left behind, the ships they sailed and more. You'll get a better idea of where people sharing the Connerton name settled and where they may reside today in the United Kingdom and other countries. You'll get all this information and much more in your Connerton family name book.