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The book by the prominent American scholar Paul Connerton

How Societies Remember belongs to the field of cultural anthropology, which is little known in Ukrainian academia. It is a fundamental contribution to the development of the topic of the social dimension of memory, becoming a kind of discovery for both anthropologists and those engaged in social theories. The central concept of Connerton's work is the concept of "memory-habit". It is through the prism of this memory-habit, the memory of the body, that it is proposed to look at how memory is inter-erised, becoming the basis of the social, cultural and political unconscious. The main problem that the researcher poses is to find out: how is the memory of groups maintained and transmitted to the next generations? In answering this question, Connerton leads his argument through three main areas: structures of social memory, ceremonies of commemoration, and body memory - bodily practices and techniques of the body.

Advised for cultural anthropologists, historians, philosophers, sociologists and art historians, as well as students and teachers of these specialities. Translated into Ukrainian for the first time.