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P (amen hea) Iso 0521249481 arc ISBN 082127093 6 peace Contents Acreage Invrodueton Socal memory Commemorative ceemonie Bodily practices us 1Acknowledgements {wish to thank the Distr and Deputy Distr of the Homans Reseach Cante tthe Avstaian Natonl Unversity forthe ivaton ot 2 Viting Fellowship andthe provision of congenial conditions in which femme ofthe work towards ths Sook was done [ove speci debt of thanks to Geottey Hawthomy for hs seadlast suppor fo this projet {fom ineption ae «quite iflerent de to eventual appearance a. methine, and Yo Ruse Keath whom dscused the details at the workstmow stages. The book has benehite om thecal comments fon an evier verano ade by them and aso bY Gregory Blue [Nicholas Bove Peter Edwards, Riche Roberton and Blesbth Sopp. ‘dep grael to them lor helping me to sya ite mre dea shat I wanted to sy. Fay, {wish thank Babe Coe and Joyce vere who cheertlly and ffceny prepared ths manuscript for publeaton Introduction We genenlly think of memary a a ndvidual cy. None the es {here are a number of thinkers who concur in baring tat hee soe ich thing aa colectie or scl memaryTshate hat sumption, but tend bo vege ver She queaton ast here this phenewnon, soc ‘Semory canbe found tobe mon cust operative, ‘According he question o which ths bok s addressed Faw she ‘aedina enero capacius sense an with flebiy Of Mes Ng (oil both smal fcetofae sxe (such a lager ub) an ‘erty extensive societies mest of whose members cannet know each other personally (such as nation-states and word religions). Readers might reasons expect ht the question ths posed — haw ie themernoryol groups conveyed and sane? ~ mig lend to cone son, ether of social memory at dimension of pol power, of the ‘enconscious clement sn socal memory or both. In what flrs thane [sues are ocasionaly touched upon, bu hey ae intentionally not a eI cen arab dob. a ny theta prsentdy ifomaton technologies, and tence the organisation of clive mnemary tough the use of daa processing machines, snot merely «technval mater bt one dsecty raring on Ipiimstion, the question ofthe contol and ownership of infomation being» ropa fre" Again. the fact hat Mo lager beleve ithe reat ‘subject’ of fstory he pleat the party, the West-mears, nat the dlsappeaance ofthese great master nate, but eather heir continuing unconscious efectivnes sways of Ning Shoutand acingin our contemporary stuaton tir persistence, nother ‘words as unconscious clectve memories” TE nelther the poli nor the unconsciousness of memory is expclyedo How sti ter seddesed in this book, that snot therefore, Because of any doubts ‘hterainey th author arto thamportanc, bet Becnuse what share being advanced aferen argument an argument at snot incompet Siti age sions ust inated, but one whichis suscep pe CAR PEAS ‘ent inated by oting a the out we pont tht are ken 65 ‘omic One concems memary a5 such Ihe cher concerns focal a NTT OTT pens ey high apensnopm nn bonkepealie fx We oper Tarcirteets ote unc ey ences ei at Stastalates inherent onde oh ‘ibe gfe Shean eres See se pthoh aac era ake eh Joswohan tient cones helper Hehe isa acai tet pn wet ce pote teclethcrt we hlratiwny outa Poctuansbeaaepan haosind athena eam pe [Se ieee cas tocar che at ee |e et ae Siete Tha echevorkor Tina menoey ascension ee a tt care aietsratvatnie teal Bssatnscatnonannserdanpyaenesent ced aor wer tear ehcp pet En Coney an ote seme ee se Sapa cnc rat peaeatoas op ny sree eet anita i oe ae retrace te hppa fase a es Eaprletaivtes tee heracachea ina gen, wen deaieaoueserier stele seit iret iichet ferent erin sealepee ending eee a fat nen a aca ny ops 8 Stoo an ep etn cnr eg Serene oo aera mat aoe Saneremlsae ag rth een ery meina a garthcn trey esta Sree eanarcs tsone omer eee Srpetiepupclentnest scien esc ese retin eee akon ntintetcupcanottencoe a nearer tee beyee pe od Sra Salettcsnpacy ecu sca low ‘iatou orton ‘nat thetne of his nose they Hens armaniousy inthe sound of hi Soest were io more hata ansparent envelope, tate sane fe the fice orhea the Vie ts these tins wich we ogee and to Tnparicay we may now Hatimages OTe resent soil one iran imp re tat ‘member can share neler experiences for assumptions, Th ef Is Sen perhaps most viously when communication scoss generaions it impeded by diferent ets of momorer. Agor generaone,cleren se fot memaris, frequently in me shape of pct background narratives, Stil encourer eachother, 20 that though physically present fo one Shother ine parale setting the fren generations may remain ‘ental and emotionally inelted, the Memes of one generation leche tatievbly, seit wry inthe brane ap bodies hat generation Proust shows us the saconcering atenaton-liy,tesense fs mental jo that ul from the nection of icommensurable mers He hos Win te experience of Mara, when he returns 0 fshionable ‘ect ater a lng absence and te to ngage forthe fis ein coer Etton witha young Amencan woman who had herd ot bout im rom the Dachese de Guermantes, and who was regarded ne ofthe ost ‘Gehonabe women ofthe day but whose name was ently unknown to Mare Conversation with her was agreeable, but for Marcel rendered dcaleby the novelty wo hs ets ofthe names of most of the people she hed about although these were the very people wh formed the core ot polite socey at tat time. And the convere way so trues her request Marelnarated many anedotescfthe pst and any ofthesames which hhepronounced meant uting ots ed forthe mostpur never even ‘eae ther. Tis was not merely because she was youn because she ad not ed in France or long ad when she fis ative had krown ‘obody, she fad ony begun #9 move in ahora society sme years ‘erMarcl had winrar ome Te converation was urmligble ‘rene the bo of thesn hed ved inthe anne sol world bat with ‘mterval of vente yeas. Thus although fr orinaty speech he and Marcel edhe sme language, when tcameloames-when came, we right say, to ter scking to exchange a socal legitimate carreney of th voces ad nahin in common “The may aay tht our experiences of the prserE reel pon our kncwiedge of the pos and that our ioages of the past ‘omonly serve legitimate a presen social order. Andy! these os ign oe are they stan nscent when thos at For mages of 3ho ti rome ine rast and rece know ofthe ast want argue are [onveyed nd suaines by (mor re» Tec sae hoe tae] a bg) ET paradoxical example thatthe Fene Revol, isa paradoxka ase choseithres nore you woulda expen socal memory ‘ork it mis sunty bes ics of great revlutons. atone ing that {Eid to get een aout the Pench Revohtion ithe al bp ‘Sngritivaoed wclechon. Another ut itive he severing os ead and change inthe dothes people wore. {blve tha here 2 Connection between ese wo thing and hat wt we cana aout at onnecon i geneaabc beyond te perticlarnsance. 1B, fe ‘her tat he soon tothe question posed ove —how te memory of ‘Boupr conveyed and sistas?” loves bringing these to tings {rcalletign nd bah togeter ina way hat we might not Rave ought ‘One ight not ave thovght of doing that case, when recalletion ‘ascend an carl ther ths aan india acy, has fended fo be sen the recbecton of call radio: and such # tain, tur Ras endef be thought ofa smeting hati i ‘erbed Mor thon two leno indeed, the whole sory of expat ermencube ay operates in vou ofthis presuppostin rue tha for longtime now, the uy of hermeneuics has ber seen os resting inthe unity of precede whichis pind appa to any ‘ject and any practice apele of bearing mening, Lea and thesig ‘alec, ors ofa, tal, body expressions all ae powsle ‘hes interpretative scl. Yet although bodily paces are in prince cuded a pose objets of hermenee nly n pate ermereuics has taken insctption sits prveed bet are om lndin the cours of te story fehas onsen resrred the int ‘entorsip wthiadion which focrseronthetransson of whats ‘en incre or tet a the very aston documentary evidence ‘whch led fo vee tats comparable texts o Be consthuted 6% ‘rere the image aa kenest of tex. sagan rent conten het abl sec fo give an acount how paces fs nor inscribed Lind are tanamied.insndasaadiion The reader abou perhaps be waraed aso how ths end wll be p> Poached What follows cast not 20 much nthe fom ofa Wet sy ‘ther that ofan aay quetthe mth cumlatve, Des he ‘ray lope that wil bd, nae lope cnnecion sa Sriongen Ta cOanecHON am BE PSST) sing TON » progressive rarowing e focus. ithete is sucha thngarcrmemery Tisha argue we are Miely find ih commemoraine ce Intduion smoratve Taras Thy re pinnate pefermay cannot ba tough cannotbe thought mithout soto this way shall soko show that here san inet [ata structures tat rot adequately explained by an te cuter [shadows of whats sal structureSocial memory ‘All beginnings contain an element of ecalecon. Tis parclay ‘hens socal poup makes concerted ello to bpin with» hall new ven natu uchattempted beginning. Thebeginning has athing whaoever thal ‘onto tas if teame out of nowhere Fora moment, the moment of ‘ar the beginners had abolished the sequence of sand were thrown ut ofthe continu othe tempor order Tied the alors olen eter tir sene of ac By maagurting = ‘eweaundar Buh sbeoktely new ninoncevable snot as has ery diel tbh wih whol new tt, ha Yo many ol yas Tt haben he eubihton t+ nove enepnie or ao an ‘tbls one. More fundamental, is that nal des of experience ‘realy Bae our particle experiences ona prior cones in ode ‘hau that they at ineligible al: tha lor fo any single experince, Surmind sale prediposes with amevtrk of cuines, 8 type Shapes of exponen jess To perceive an objector act upon 8 © Joc within ti system of expectations. The werd ofthe pest ‘eine in tem of temporal experience, ran organised body of ec ‘ties hues-ansncallasion In imapining what historic begining might be ia the modern Agiation hae tuned back again ad agai othe events ofthe French Revolton Thishisovieupture movetnanany oer, assssumedfor us the status of todern myth, it tk on that status very uly All ‘efletion on story on he continent of Europe throughout heen Cenfary looks behind tt the momen of fat revolton In whieh Oe ineining of revoltion se was wansfonmed fom a ceca of rove ‘en! tothe advent the new For thoseeho came fer, he present was ‘Seenas ate fallin thon of pose ner age oF 25a permanent ‘Ss mony state of crisis, the antpatin, whetherhoped foro feared of recurent ‘ruption’ Revoluonary iugining reached bajend the European hes [Bnd sine the late nineteenth centy we have led the myth ofthe eveton anc a the ist Chistian generations lved the myn ofthe Ed of the World. Aseary a 1798, Kan emarked tata Phenomenon of {his kind can never agin be forgotten” ‘Yet this bepianing which provides us with our myth of a Nstoie beginning serves aso, and athe mere starkly, to bring into ell the ‘Borst of realsction in al apparent beginnings. The work of Feo ley and imply, and st man ‘ieont levels of experienc bat mean to single oat te fr specie ‘comment he way whch recoectionwasat workin wo sine “The besinnng which was sought inthe ial and execution of Lous XV of Franc ex this cicumstanceina pecan damatieway.Theleaders ‘lth Revastion who sin adgementon Lot ace aprblem that ws ‘ot uniguetothemreiver fas 3 problns hat contonts any gin for Itsanee hat naps bythe Nuremberg Tal, which sek oe mols ne. soil de, The epelde of 1795 may be seen ss an lance ofa ore ‘ener phenomenon the Waly fat ofa sucesorregame. Ths sunle “under the authority of slongrestabished regime tisnotlke hose acs oF iste which reiforce «syst of retuton by sting is governing DPancplor ane mare into maton o by mowing the deals of the [pple its nto frther ik in soquence of eelerens through tific a regime wither achaver greater soldat oe moves towards 1 Tikwte disintegration” Those who adbare mat reautely to Te prn->] ‘Spesol the nee regen sose whe have sere most severely athe fandsof theo seine mant nt only evengeforparteslar wrongs and = ‘eciatin of parts fuguites The eteeent they seek i ne in Iwhich the continuing trugeeBeeee the new order andthe od Wl be Ustitvly terminates, Base the letimay fe Vos wl be va fated once snd forall A brner sto be ered against future tans ttesion. The presents tobe epuated om what precededtby ant ct {Thogunoal demarcation, The tl by fat ol successor repimes ke the traction ofa wall unisakable sn permanent, between The eh? beginnings a the ld yranny. To pass judgement on he practices ofthe ‘i epee te connuv at the ne order ©a al itis reenter Sec eng “The alan exectonof Lows XVI was nothe marder ofa alerbut the Spe wore {erie ings had bee Ky would ing pve sins the puyol weeldte Linge, snorerc by t eati ke e ‘Potro Hort sp Heo WV of Bones But whatever ate might ef ndsodsl kings, the pone of dynastic sucession femaned ‘Stat Whether by ded though tral coe otnoga ope per inthe contr ef inage Why the murat gs eve Eetnectaton of igshipuntouch? Baas, Ca cn pt I none ofthe murders ever mained ta he Bone might en fp) Nese lth sa ad ez inugheteteben tet ‘rvs tat the son tstta the nstutin. a mons shasbeeehet om je Fva auton the person whose death they ad stated. Ts foun of elcdedet the Fig the benchmarks of eer lhe fe between one nga another tine tond sll Thee asa pint rintemegnum ~ which people sought oe as brie spss When | ous Xl of France dated his accession the hone fom te xeon ‘this predeessor twas otis dyna rinepe hat eres oe he thinking 0 epee 2 tha lays eer hina within he ‘ontet of the dynamic rnim, 3 contest in which asasiatons cel sheays be accommodates epsode within the naratve of nasi Continuity, conte ined in which assassination was Rt 50.mUe 3 threat othe power of dynasty 2s ther an pict homage tit. Asses ation It the principle of he eye realm ntact Benn ft eo Ba ERG eT PEE ‘The whole point of Louis ial ard execution ly in ts ceremonial pubs: as ths hated im ths pubicapety by denying is aussi. Te dynasic pind war detroyed not by aearination| ‘ory npricrment or anihment bt by puteng Lous she embod ‘ental kingship t death in uch way hat fil pul abhorence of {he instuton of Kngahip was actualy expressed and witneseed* The ‘revolutonans needed tote some ritual proces tough Wich he a2 elit suroundng kingship cul bey repadted, What thoy thae wept wae moony an inetutonbtthe pail nelogy thstlegiimated hat instaton That poi thesog, tebe! atthe ‘ing united in one person his natu body a am indadal and Ni representative body a the king, was most cay expresed nthe cro 7 ‘align aremony was expressed natn tect efor ane bata Evtheaoanting by eishop of the church. wit he alimporant phrase snnouning that he animes kng rules‘ the race of Gad Is this Souble component that gave the coronation nef quotacamental ‘racer, Fors thousand years the Kings of France ad rected at et ‘oromation the haly ols well asthe cown upon thle hetds ater the ‘manner ofthe apostes’ successor. The effect was to tansform te ene tes of royally into appatentysaciegious persons, This wasthe efit hat the pute eid s Lous sought o undo. Here was the onymaronic tdetent oft eiie: Lous wa tobe given «soya unesl ocd ‘yal feral, The ceremony of hil and exceton wes intended to frase the memsxy ofa poe ceremony. The anolated head was deap- ‘ced which foro lang the daa ak had appropasted sown hei victim well unrstood that ths was an event in the demize of pote theaogy Louis 1 ike Chaves lot England expt ened “The proceedings at the tal sense of screge that had surounded the murder of kings One ite revoked mother 7 eng ‘hecthersteahe hitherto contmed thatinaaton, The al nding ngshipwasasetingefacount with nd gig ofan count of what ‘epudted. Theejectono the principle of he dynastic realm, in scase the nual enactment of that rejection, was sll an eccount of and ¢ ‘alingal the superseded dyastresim. The prolem heels sia © ‘hat wach are over the quero ofthe snrbution of property. Some peopel fom others dezeudthemr siete produc Inallthase Wrage they may acquite possessions by means rot sanctioned by the prevaling princes of asic in regard o possessions. The existence of pstinjstce andthe continaed memory of tat ijt rases the ques on of he rccation of njustcon For pat injustice hat thea the structure of soces present arrangement for holding proper in ‘erlous ways~or analogous tse tha post inate has hoped the Structure ofa soc’ aangements or founding is soveregnt =the ‘etion ass ae to whut now, if anything, ough tobe done to reckly thew nace. What kind of erminaare and what abigations do the pertormer of past injustice hate toward those whe poston worse {han it would Rave Been had the injustice not bean perpetrated? How far back must you go in faking acount ofthe memory of pat injustice, inow sits emote between the new bepnnig and the old tranny iso rea Siglo dating Gucierste of he rvolatonay Per esate, I ot so deintive «begining, then at east a tempavary ber stom om the practice oth ortalshd order. They tate he ate establish new set typical bly practise parbpanis inthe es [sion exhinted «frm of behaviour that wae not unique Yo themselves behaviour hati tobe found in alearrivas when nee he rsperon of Rerarchicalank,prveges, noms and potions SivesofCethingin Parispased trough Wo phases dung he evolutionary pened. Daan the ist. which dominated the years 791-4 clothesbecame norms. The elo of siple eta the absence of adornments were entenai of ine deseo elennate scl bares inthe teving regan by Mang th body outa ctizens wer tobe rete wih ane anther without the sntrarion of tferencor in socal sats During the send pve, dress care to mena free bodiy moveent People nw began cies ih bch way aso expose ther bodies fo one anser onthe ste 2 ‘deplay the motions othe body. The meres, th wonsan fiom, wore light musin drapery which reveals the shape ofthe bess fl tnd cofered ether the am norte legs blow the knees whl the Imusin showed the movement othe mts when the Boy change pos: on, Her male counterpart the ner, ase man deeds the fom ‘ofacone witht ip on the round very ight Houses ed upto hore land ended in igh and exaggerated clars,baghly coloured cavts a Ihe worn dhevelled or atone inthe stl of Romianslaves, While the ‘yleo the meselle was intecded av a bwation fasion, tha of he incroilen meant as sat pared thera proce the Mac ‘oni. stylish dresser ofthe 175s, by using lorgetes and walking with Iincing steps Ts wae moment nthe story of Pas when nor ‘es were suspended: when, asinallcinval the peopl acted oa helt ‘tvarenss tha etblahed suthonty wa, in vay, mater of fea Presciption TH the revolutionaries jected the paces of bs behaviour dom rant under these nine tht was bacase they Kes tat nab oF thei own hats boy department. This wae he point thi the dep ties othe Third state were mangvhenin ay 1789 they remonsated, fist at thes Rumibating ofc costume sd ten, hen tat Rad be ‘hanged, st the very ea of costume dtingushing them om the ‘puts of the nobly. Ins pamphlet of? May 1789 they atached the 7 Soci meroy ‘onvetionrequing te deputes to wen diferent costumes enblematic otter entate rach practic they stata perp on onaseptable Inequaliy, destructive of te very essence ofthe Asem What uated Was inequality in an incorporated foes that aiton af Bally practice i ccorsance sth wehien te upper ranks soy 3>- pearedon the stret in saboate costumes which th set her apa fom the lower orders and allowed them to dominate the set bad Tuer upheld by supa vs whch sized ech soc statu inte hierarchy sett appropiate dress and fete anyoneta wer he otingoffialy and publicly pronounced suitable for anther soca} sank The epreenativer ofthe Third Estate wanted lesa tne {resslon, a tangressve act which cried te point not spl fom & remediate begining for ‘ture pital sty, bu fom the sesee {trerospectve imagination which recaled a hae and a form of soc Seder when apperences onthe sect were pce nds of si ‘Nera ts teen argue = Burk the preeminot spokes a sich a view and Onvesot a ieent sxemplsy exponent hat pola Sdeoiogy mst be understood not ae an independently premeiated ‘begining for pola acti’, But as knowledge, an abstract act [enerlaed form of concete manner of atending othe aangements [rset ha dealapies as exprened hte form of pole pre srames or ofc mass, can ieverbe eve than abreviatonsol ome ‘manner of concrete behavior and Wat a wadion of behavior n- reat tnowndge of deta, nace hat fas tobe earned not sates ora ae of ck, nor oven aa uta cnet, eherent ‘manner of ving in all ts neratonens® Such an insight tis fequeny| flamed, i exclusive to the tue Conserve: bu the representatives of ‘ne Turd Etat nasigning suc importance fo the deals of everyday dress showed themeelvesasawareasther opponents thatdotheshadthe ination a seying something stout the snr the went and what equally important, of making ha ststement abl one "To rad or wear ces na signcant respec smi to eading ot comporingaiterary tx. To read or composes text as erature and longing to 2 paricuar gene ofitertire, i not to approach twat preconception” one mat bring fo it an snp anderstanding of the ‘Operations oft discourse wich lone what olook fro how to ft about composing. Only thse who pssetsed the rege itera) ‘ompeiens would be able to pres Yo make sense af tre cones ‘nation af phrases y reading them berate ose pe anal ‘gous, only these who posses the equi sol compete woul beable read the dress ofthe noo an «prod o the Macao us ‘Sone group has itera the amar of heatere whe enablesthem conve linguist sentencesint Merry structre and meanings slkewischas the other nteralsed the grammar of dress which enabler them to convert othing tems iso coming sucttes and mennings [Anyone who doesnot pores uch competences anyone unfair ith {he conversion by which fons ee sad people ated, would or ttm be quit puried if eonranted with jr poor bes person dressed in ine stl fan inooyale Tn eading teraure one eign the sdjetinqueston toa genre ninerpreting clothes one proceeds kes. ‘Anindial ray festare, or sn naval cathing ature, possesses Imeanng benin perceived a part ofa whale carter of meanings hd. ineach ase, ths ype whole must be a mre or ess exp ges ‘hoot the kind of uterance or the king of Greve hate Being ered Unlesinterpeters make sess about he kindof mearngtey confront they ave no way of ening her Wansent encounters with he deta [Andthi subsumpion ofthe parler expesence under2 ype or en it rots a proces dentiyingceruin expla features. alsoentals Set of expectations by vite of ehich one Bleves that many of the Snesamined features i the new experience willbe the seat tues ‘horacterinic of previous experene or iftheyarenotthe se, hat sy tre desrbable tems of ther degree of divergence tem tha et of txpecations. Tis structure of input expectations isalwaysa.cmponent ba ype~atype ofiteratureoratypeet othing- because iy vatueat and tht of newly deveaped paces of dething ~ we find 9 common feature, The atempt to beak deiively wth an cder soa order en ‘ourlersaind of istoraldepositand twentens to ounder upon‘. The more tlhe apizstone ofthe new regime, hemor impecaualy wilt ek to ntrace an er of forced forgetting To say that sxies are ee teeta cassetimker cantante Saray ettnancharnoreoatcentsen eee etiarcmanay shares cane Taneoegnet astro isthe Rises ara eangavetio ack otte en Iepeated commemorative acta at ast prt in curly specie boy gif feelings wih respect othe ing, o ater owards hs ng Shp, that bore the mak of ances belts th rot eign and ‘waysotthought hate behind sensect theo and iil that [Ewhy the pubic execution of Louis was eltbyallscontenperais tobe | so awesome an event And i was compose, in regard to the doting Process ofthe erly revolsionay pr ad Theron, of Merare rescriplons shat were incorporated in hal Bly practi tha > Ivy the new lashions ofthe oe were experince by the preguntas ‘ER say Fase egies aaa veto, soa Hence Wa] _scarivaliberation In both ype faci we se pop ying to mae ‘ut the boundarier of 3 rade begining sd in nether ese begening, thar nes image of sce sont even tina without iS element of ecolecton ~ of secletion both expt and emp. The attempt esatichabepnnig refers backinevorbly ts pattem sca We ned to isting sca memory rom a mone spe prac thats ‘estiemed the acti of hr tonractonKrowege ofa aman sctvts inthe pasts poser through» knowledge athe aces ‘Whether she bones bared in Reman ferfcsons, ea plot sones {hail tat remains Norman owe, ra andra Geek nscpton hose se ror reese a custom, os narave writen by he wns {rome sane, what he histor del hae ces. io ye turk, perceptle tothe ames which some phencmence in et ccs, hs le behind. fst 0 apprehend sich mare as aes of Sorting, ns iden steady thane gone yond the Sage f ‘rerely making nates stat hear theelos to covnt some thang as evidence to make aent shou onething dse,hamey I MTT Fisionans ha so say, proced ntrentialy, They investigate ev dence mach arlwyers cio qucsion winaees ina curt aw exest Tng fom that evidence nformaion wi dors not exp conan or ven which was contrary tthe over sestrtons contained int Tose Parts of the evidence whuch re made up of previous stalemate arin ro Senve privigeda previous statement cming to be tus haw fo the Tistoran the sane stator sary othertype of eidence Histns are able {oreject something epi tol them nthe evidence and to subsite {hel on interpretation of events ine pace, And even fthey do ace ‘sts pe sats ey otis! tc asa Trenton ands tkenss simone eee at eso trate a Faron eying artes other than hese tween rout most cmice, Soran teh cw uty hr tape suena ersities remo ther evidence in the sense that they possess eitraby reference to which when ostatement abou! anevent or cist asreaced he stern nvunbroken tradition fom ejewtneses, is sl possible or he hi this pay by the erie eamanason of sutemens cntained in thet tener sours, whee wien sauce ean sources conning sae ment asserting or implying alleged fact regarding the subject in which the historian Is ierested, and pany bythe use of what ae called ur Seiten source, fr example schacsngal material connected with the Sie subj the pnt of deserbing these a unwrten sours being India tha since they ae not Tet, they contain no seadymede ‘But historical contraction isl nosey even when soi memory preserves dre testimony ofan event Fors horn working on froblen ia recent history and sccve a rt hand a ead ade ates {othe very questioning puttethe evidence, than the Rstran wl eed to question hat statement iis tobe considered as evidence and hss {horas enon ifthe anwer whch the tora receiver i given BF a tpeteas ory the peron who di what he Mtoran x inguin no ‘istnne do nt conhnue fo question the statment of tha infoemants becuse they think tat the ifornant want fo deceive therm or ave themseves ben deceived, Historans continue to question he statements thir iformants cause i they weet accept hem at face vale that ‘would amount fo abandoning ther sstnomy ss practising horns tp They would then have rinquhed their tdapendenceo sal tm independence based on ter lm to have the ight ome up thes ‘wn mind by metode prope to ht cwn sence, as to the Comedt ‘elution fhe problems that asin he course of hat seni practice Despite tisindependenc fram sol memary, the prot of strc seconarscon cin mportnt ways receives uingimpets fom, ond ln in tum give sigaant shape fo, he iemory of Soc groups A partly extere case of euch intercon ocur when sate peas [used in systematic way to deprive is izes oftheir memory. A ‘otataransms behave in his waythementaesiverentofthe subjects lator epme begins whence memonesaretaken aay When “lange per wants to deprive «sal coury oft national conscious essituses the method of organised forging In Cech histor alanethis ‘rzarised oivion hasbeen iste wie, ater 118 and ater 198. Contemporary wits ae prosibed, itorans re amined from het posts and he people who havebeenslencedand cesoved om hess 4 Sc memoy ‘become invisible an forgotten. Wha shoring in tata regines {pot only the vation of nan digty butte fee tot hese might ternal nabody who ould ever ain propery bea test the pt (Onwellseveeaon ofa tem of government ace no ett ns pte henson of state of colecve anes etter ies oat =i ety, {notin Ninton Egy For that there wk ele wo reaned hat he "trugle af zn againet sate power Is the struggle of thee memary ins forced oretng and who made thea fom the begin ot eny to save temseives butt urive ab witnesses tne genet ions, to become relentless recorders: the ramet of Soohenyn snd ‘Wiee| mast stand formany In suck cicumstences tering of oppo sional histories not the only pace of documented histor trucion; but precelybesure i that peters the metry os troupe whose voice would oleriae have been silenced "Agnn the Nstoriography’o the Causes quent esinony tthe roe of historical writing the formation ef poll deny. Medieval "Musk hinerians di not sare eth medieval European Civitan the sense of wien ret struggle between mn ane Chistendon for the cont ofthe Ho Lang. Inthe extensive Munim istrogaphy of that ime the words Crusade’ and ‘Crasader’ ever ear. The ntemp> ‘ary Moai hitonane spoke ofthe Cracaets hea the inl ore the Franks, and the viewed the tacks nonce by then in Si yp land Mesopotamia, between the end of te elventh andthe end ofthe Thrcen centuries, as bangin no way fundamentally teres rom he former wats waged between say od the nil Sa ain he ‘our ofthe rentncentury andor In Andalstheoughout the Spancth Reconguss, arin Sly asia the Norman, A Nstory ofthe Crsades| ‘cannot be fund inthe Musi stor weting tht ne ont st most ony agents of what such a Rison might be, embeded in| ‘renee on afer sabes Meseval Mus histonogrphy on i ‘Stenalys history ofthe Crsages, But in the pea nce 1945 a ‘expanding body of Arabic hia werstng hes ken the Gruss a ts theme, The Crusades have aow Became 8 eode word fr the malign Intentions of the Wester powers. Must horas Have cme os 3 ‘train paralism bree the period of the eth and tenth cen ‘uses ad te lst hundred yeas In Boh ass the lami Mile Eat ‘was assled by European fore hich succeeds in imposing theca {ol upon e age pert a the region. From 4 Mss viewpoint. the Cre deshate come be seen asthe primary phys of European cloission ‘heprefguation slong term movement whichinclates the Bonaparte expedition, the Brish conquest of Fey, nd the Mandate ster inthe Levent. That movement een ab culminating nthe foundation of he sow etree ‘ne ec and with ed mig sph Arnal a ‘ued momentum. Muslin Nstorlans now seen the se and fal ofthe {Grader prints paras to contemporary events. The Crusades he coe on en tse ned ato Pie "Atmore paradoncal case sills tat presented by the tansfoemation of ‘store wring in the ninetenth century. The pazador es in two fntithecal yt ely eens aspects of hie press a wae intr: ‘rte by hove who Were caught up int. One Ww of hime [nterpie fastens atenson upon the prveged tutu of he store. Scenes Ths way of seeing ings depends upon saliting the practic ot methodical understanding that akes pac inthe histori ences roma Bow allebraan phtaneran te praca oration Bat Tees on fo Sense that he pace of itor esearch resting ne felectual spice that might be occupied by a theory of habits aleady ‘cccuped. The ground which mighcoverappearstbeaeady occupied by contemporary concent. For i they now apres on ite ee treryone apes tht scl words fe defined by teeing coventons ‘Wa he eso convertion we explain to ouscvs te ion ofan otder ‘of objective rales at whose isle tac sca dimension, world taken to be the world tht te because the rales that make what is ae Interactive agreed. And language as become for us the archetypal ‘odel oral other forms of intrsbjectvity. because language Pas roots on the oe and inthe natu of formal over an onthe oer hand Sl menay ‘in that common imps consent that underes the posit of any “The point ova hold of othe purposes the presentnvestigations that most forms ofeortemporayconventonas: Rave proceeded in such {way auto eliminate Mab ata ele bjt of ngury. Some com ration personaland cognitive emery iswhal the heemenevts have ‘Sandarly been trying torecoverand interpret whereas abl memory [simhatthey have toned tosgor can perhaps besindcte what mean byttiswithrelerencestotwoparcalrtexs Theyre Wicks Theidnof2 Sti Sen and Sabin” essay ‘La Pensée Bougeose: the Ameran Clsthing Sytem canaderti numba father eis could of ours Ine been chose ned: [choot thee two becsse they ate uray simpiomatc. The approaches they exemplty may be ten a5 repre- sentative of les of thinking tht Pave teen wey adopted n toe ‘ci and altura theory "The expt elimination fhe notonof habe evident tht approach to sel theory hich ev purtcueinstances of havo ae application of socal rules swell naw that Wich aks spot ot {departure in Theis of Sc See om John Stat Ms omventon ‘itso science might be modell on natural cence Whales le remarked, But more pernent fo the present discussion stati the feurse of his argument Winch pointedly takes issue with Oskeshots “incon between two forms of morality. Onkesot dsinguishes tee tween a type of Morality which isa eBecive appheabion ofa mer terion and type of morality wicks 'a habit afin ad beh tcur="The fist form, the reflcsve aplication ofa moral ction may bppen the aetcnsciousparat of moral deals or ae therefeive ‘Sbiewvanceat moral ules; nethercase, sis afrm oor eine Special value i atrbuted to sl consciousnes, wheter mein oF ‘cal. Notonystheruleor he esl the product ofreecive hough, but "he appcaton ofthe rule or ies o any pats ststion is also & relive att. This orm of mor ie thereore ena pares pe fining reuse turing the apprecation of morals hem. ‘ales ating in which the els are seperated end detache rm he ‘necessary imperfect expression they find in puta acions’ and ‘requires a ring in he applation fideals to concetestuatons and {thea ofseectng appropiate means forachievingteendsehich ut ‘extn hs incest ‘Oakeshott contast this with tha fom of moral fe which he calles Ibi ofatfection and conduc In tls ype of moral be everyday sta tans ares tobe met ot by ‘conduct recognized asthe expression of smorlideal nor by consciously applying 6 oursees a ale of behavior »butbynetingin accordance wih certain habit of ohaviour: Such form ‘fon ie doesnt ese om the consciousness of possible lena ‘rary ol behaving and rma cole determined by ania orale or an ‘pinion, fom among the peeved alerts; conduct ere as nee ‘Epona without fefecton™ Acoringly, In ost ofthe currents ‘ons there leno weighing upaalteratvs and no relation onthe posible consequences of con oh anypaelr cain there othe {ngmore han the uneeecse folowing oa tain conduc n which tnehave been brought up For thee hubs ol allechonand behaviour are ‘otto te learned by preset, tt cal by ving with people who hate fy behave ns certan manner. We acquire such haben these way thar we acute ourratve langage Tost asthere sno pint chil se sStwhih ean be sant ler he language whch bial spoken in ‘shearing, so equal there sno pint in ts eat whch ean be sad 0 begin ton hrbiyof behaviour rom the people constant abut i Even though in Bth cies, what ened rt est ome of on be formulsted in roles an precepts, in neh cae oe, hs kind of ction ry karingreanc peeps What ermal the ormolation of rules. And indeed, Oskshot inst, sich peat Knowle of rules thi corumand of angusgsot behavior ent impossible unt we have forgten them at res and are no longet Teupled fo urn speech and tction into the applcabon of festa Santon In sm, Oakeshot warts to sy thatthe diving ine beeen Teuviour wich is blue and behaviour which fs rule-goemned Aepends upon whether or nota ule consciously apes ane nits thatasobetatl prof man behaviour cane descrieanvers he ‘Aaintthis Winch argues thatthe est of whether person'sactons are the aplaton ofa rl e not whether they can formulate the rule But ‘nether takes sense to stings between sight anda eong way of Sg hinge in oncom wh wy an andre Sa kt he does eventhough he doesnot and perhaps cannot, forme at fsx’ Winch les from this that Onkesot is ig fo say that lenming form of conducts ike larning to speaks angus, bt hate Siow a ference he smog Laing spn ings tne. Ther evidently a sens in which the ivalves doing someting ‘erent rom what | have been shown. Yet in elton f the linge "es that allowing thse count ageing ona the sme waa » avebeen shown, And this brings out wba isneanthere when we peak toscqttes propensity ogo on deing the same Kot ting: bat ther nother seein hich tis tte of sing a rl. Ther wo senses, Winch emphasises, te dferent and uch Hinges upon te dfeence. Uitwere meal a gussion of ba, he argue, Sen our csrent bea tour might cerany be inienced by the way in which we had ace inthe past but hat would be just causa infuenc, The dog responds to N's fommandsnow ina cena ry bees what at happenedto te dog She pt am ln cote he sr vata nate yond because os being used difleenl ofthese two stuatons. The dg hs been conditioned to respondinscevsn way, wheres know the correct sy ses oe alate crag ic won Sinderstand whats meant by doing the same hing on the same kind of beeison The notion of ue of conduct andthe natin of meaning feton are interwoven i ir ndspensble to our Kentying acne 3: Sesh tnt ner ly hopper age = fur~nderstanding of scale, then ll ot be that of ease and elect but hao mearinghuness By tis move Winch eaves the notion of hast svth no igican work odo fr vol theory. By making this dtncion berween habs td rales, Wich abet age that thove fr of avy which Oskeshtdesces habit of ‘Mleetion and conduct are propel desebale a alfolovring teh tour Winchmentons several examplesot rue governed behaviou® hall ‘one example whe he does no ie bat whic capares he meaning ‘Aterm ike 'shame’ efor as tos certain be of ston the shah fn toacerain manner of response to the ution, hata hiding onset for of seking to wipe out the stain Hiding inthis contest intended overuptheshame, we cin understand what mest by ding heseonly \twe comprehend what kindof station and feling bring talked about ‘Aterm ks tame, then, cn be explained oly by reference to» spec language of ineeracon in which we Blame, exhort admire and esteem eachother Inthe case stuntons judged tote shame there may Beno "ystematic formulntion ofthe nore ado the oneeption 0 snen and felt which undelethem Butthe understanding ofthese norms nd ot ‘hat conception nonetheless imphetin ur sty to apply the apprope tie dexptiona to prticilr acon and stations. These pice re {ge the possibilty of cern sel descriptions bythe paripants and ich eledesrptons are constatve of tose practices ® ”Sahins arrives at posto nalgous to that advanced by Winch bt by ‘illeent route tat by appiing he methods of structural Enguinice {othe language of dothesInhis tidy ofthe American dohing system Shine despenses with any notion of fab not expt but By imp socallneaning of lther has any ncesary connorion rth ther phy propertin Agana hs he argues ha he sol mening of obets of ‘Sparel that makes them useful to certain categories personsisymbolc fndabitray In making tcl, Sahin liberty apes the prem Ineo Sousur's datinciobetween language and speech, which rom he tuts et ede what he called the: ysl spect of commanseation’ © ‘This means that whats importants not how a sound is produced But tbe (wey in which ils distinguished from other sounds, The round, for Sangster sand whhe om mage ip the series Band fas am octave, tthe secs bg and da roles onsonant nd tthe seis ands abi It thus Becomes pssbe to haractens langage, not wth reference tothe pylon deta of ieericalntion hough he let pare onthe vol chore andthe sft Pulte but wth reference tothe wayin which eschsound' dtngushed fom all eer sounds in system of oppostes. This independence of LEnguage forthe phone subst ste most important element of strcttalem phonology testractural beni interested sounds ofr asthe various rounds of language ate defined oly by thet felition with one another Having this ry se sda the ct the Physical agpet of communcaton, Saussure then slats what hecalsthe fnccutve ide’ What given as inteligbl ls langage a3 systematic ransation of potential arangements on the bas of which parclar Speaker puces speech sss partaar merge, Speech cannot then onstate the unigue obec ofa spe asepine, bus dapersed across ferent drains Evenitcanbescentialy described, this al tthe task ofmany sciences, including acousts, physiology socelogy an the story of sear change. Saustre's objective ir thr unable 1 once speech, and more general ofpractce,oherthanar exertion ‘nthin slope which shat the code tobe pled. Shine gos on rom these premises to agus atthe system ofdoshing ‘sik he sroctre of langusge:Thecthing schemes skid generat Syntax, a generative grammar, and st of semantic oppositions The {hen operates ae 3st of rls for decining and combing dates ot ‘longs 8 t0 map the cultra unoerse In manulactring apperel of “sine, oulline andcoouran temolthingbecomesappropeats ot ‘men or womne, for night or dn, for sround the Route on publi or adult or adlescont: whats here produced are dase of tne and pice ‘which inden stations and ees, and cases of stato which sl Densonsareaserbed. By deploying binary contass between henight oughmooth harlot any pee of cth becomes particle baton of textual quae) wht is bese produce, again Is © et of Propositions concerning ages, actly, cles, ime and place, Ths Sivenrulesccomanatoncomparabletoasyeix acothingsystem iis rgd ~can develop a series of propostons which constiate so many Sthtements abou the retionsRetween persone sn situations in the Cultural sytem. Asa muteristtion ofthe main coordinates of person td ecasion, clothing Becomes a compen scheme clara eatgoiet Sethe elatons betwen then, the cove is decodable ats lance beease $sorks stan unconscious level the conception being bul no Visual perception sl Te shouldbe noted thatthe language ofthe i ere being decribed from the standpoint ofthe persve, not the wearer. Thee can be no doubt of heal purchase tis gives rneteend-entuy doting, for eample,proides» fléday for 2 txonoms n seach of Dnaty ‘oppositions. Hs garments signa tothe word te ol the wearer were ‘xpectedto play and reminded thermo te responsltersidcontnts ‘ttherle, There fmen was tobe aus they weredarkcoour with Evie omamentton), active (their dthes alowed them movement), song (hr clohes tnghansed road cher and shoules and ages (thearlthes hd shar ines and cleat dened shout) The ook women vaso be fvelous hey wore ight pute! eolour, abo laces 2 bow) inactive (heir clothes inhibited movement deat (eit tlotherscenasted small wats an sloping shoulders), ad sbi (thei clothes were cootocting). But wow lus syach the perpen from the perceiver othe ener. The apparel wom by Vitoran Homer not only conveyed dele messages it ls helped ro mould female ‘behaviour Clothes were signs. They alse consisted. "No one but 3 seem, wrote Mrs Oiphantin 16%, hnows how her dies tate abou Iherknes doubles herfatiue onda er locomtve powers Tight slits nd eves, canines and nine oe sength petits they al frestad her locomotive powers. Bu no encumbrance was meve Gap fay constcting than the ightlaced ose, worn lost universally England and Arena throughout the nineteen centary- Hs detenders and sa opponents were in agreement abou any of He elects The ‘etendern of tghtlacng spose of icine’, ‘submission Vondage nd confinement theepihe staghtiaed survives a3 memento of 3 {une when wearing 3 corset was seen a8 moral npersive The ope ponents of tightacing compared the practe mith Chinese oc-binding 3snd insted that it caused deformity they word about the ompretien ‘hvitloransin the sooner sence mat the displacement te ribs, and the compas of general weakness ~ debit, fatigue low ‘tit thatthisbrought on, Both opponents and defenders of he cost rer inset inarernent tea dongned test te apap nd change the configaraton of the bay The elfen other ord begins fo ook tthe lee ke Sahline"semanc oppeton' and vather ‘or ike Oieshots ‘abt of secon and behaviour And ths ales the whole queston of what we mean by the conitubon of scale Ser git die mesg of etegniesofDehviour, also produced the existence of tose cae “spores behviouranskep them habualvinbeingby moulding body by Sabingandby Winch Ineach aoe thesden of al has been elated bvastntegy of separation Winch abandons theconceptof hain avout ‘ofthe de ots sonal rl, whe Sabine aso ned fora concep abt {ns saence af ign whore aim to decode a sacar of grammatical Dossines, Habt eter epic abandoned orimplity gna it xp rejcted i form of vestigation which spurts the lear Sts application and te impli rejected ina mode of ng which sean coe anv, Bune tence one roves atenson om the srctre of linguage tothe ses which agen In pracice make of one sees that mere knowledge a he language, © ‘wedge f the rule o the code ives oni iperect mater of hese practices that have bon subrumedunderthe paral ems of applkaton nd eseeaton. in wach» picture, whether ofa language ott ete sh races undersiod onthe analogy of language no place and Rene ‘glicance we suiged to that ulate pact of the sme in whch ata kl resides, Ther as tere,» gap between the two tes ‘which are here analogously employed: a gap tatween rule and app {aton, and s gap Between code and execution, Thi gap mie [hall Sopeet, fe reclames ty a theory of hal prac, sn thera, of Tabiememor The polo isising upon the at ofthis gap show that there something detinguthable as waa hab-nemory and put oneal no the poston where one can begin ook mae sos a ow tot work. [As such, socal atts have gute separate igcanes fom idl habits es no more puto ay purpose to ingle ilo the warsing of Aisne india haba than twas part the undertaking fe nd epesenedby Winch a Sahl tod tht For anni Nabi dows mot havea meuning for thers i the sans atl restom they conventional expetations within he context of stem of shared ear Inge Ofeoure'a purely individual or perooal ba of gene or eer trv, can be erpreed as meaning y thers. Anal may inthe hatstot doodling daring cures and oes mightinereet hat fehviour ae meoningl either inthe sna tat st en be ken #0 be Trintenionaly symptomatic of persn’ ernperement, or in the senee atten be ken tbeintentonalycnvesing the fat tht then tas ind i not fully occupied bythe ostenale objet of everyone’ tention, Butt dove not moet th earion of 3 ral MBit For the tearing of 9 socal habit ests upon others conventional expectations uch tat t must be interpretable socal lpitmate or leita) Pevtormance Sell hubs resent ietirating pecformances. ANd ‘Fiatinemory t inkerenly peonmatve, then socal habtmemory ‘st be dtintel scl peformative It we pass in vevew tne thre types of memory which | have dis Singuished~ persona cognitive, and naitnemor we find Ua each hasbeen stadied or might be tie sn ways designed fo elucidate the ‘ature of tur type of are onthe par of The eect hose Capuaty to remember iseing investigated, the rato of he ae beng cia oh pair kd memory om whch ing aden Peronal memory has been slid br paychownalists a8 pat ofan investigation ofthe ie tory ef indiadal, signin cerry ale here would entaltesubjecs nati toremember the pretotype hel iteradvesn eng eure dina cpa Cogstive memory hasbeen shaded by pavehologate se art ofan lsvestigatin of universal metal lcs. Asgncant memery fare here whether ofa normal rpthsiogial kind, woul ntl the subject ‘it pathos pao inten rhe nap Bat what lind of forging would the fogetng of socal hast snemory ental? Ils not entirely eb ust hew mest praconers cf onteporaryconventinaism mould answer tat question, Wheress fe fore protonpicl stations in thei istry and hte Chloe have been expt nerested in te was Which Subjecs tert empovo sisempo ema g t Pracionat of sHae cts ing and forgoing ap such. But » conventional account neces Imphes an acount of ogetng. and what has commonly Been plod tat weare dealing er witha lem of copntivemsary. Thats, fromthe 2ctolapolang the ruleorcode, or om the lareto apy them, weiner thats portale oreoe a een reremoeredor gen Bl] an tonay that in adion tot, someting thers ivaed nd that he Iba dlerent type of remembering. The hatst-memory ~ more precy, the socal habitmemary ofthe sujet notdental with that subj? ‘ogniive memory of le and codes: nor et simply an aden or supplementary sypect it san went ngedent in te success ad, Ta se saa hear ewan he ngren of the ways in whch aemory is soll contracted Mauss Fasc, aralry nhs te mportan works Leas i ee mae Eeiimoecaetze# He tere argued thats hough hr members asa group particulary Knthip igiousand case nfiatone at Indidals re ble to squite, wo locale and reall hei memos, We soul ty the experiment he sgested of passing ih Fevew the numberof memsries wich we eal or whieh ae evoke fr usin the (ourse of day by ur drctvindvst atone wth oe people, We Wl then noice that mest commaniy.we appeal to ur memory ore | reply lo questions which oles puto ua which we tmapne that hey ‘oul ak us, and in ode to reply to them, we envisage ourselves a forming pat of he sme group or groupe they do Most equenti, 1 ‘nell aething tht ie esau others nae ef eal beae tlt ‘ecolecion, however personal tay be, even tat of event of which we lone were the witnesses, even that of thoughts tnd aden hat remain unerprevte, ets in telatonsip with & sve ensemble of ‘otions which many thers pocne: wth perans places, ete, words {ons fanguage, that say withthe whole materi nd mora feof ‘he sce of which we ae pat ora whch we ave Been put “hos applies he argues, al fo recent and wo dant memors. For what binds opether recent memories nat he ft tha hy ate on ‘usin tine bt rather te fac that hey form par of 3 whole ensemble of ‘houghs common to group, o the groups with whch we are 3 ristonehipa present or hie we in soe connection nthe rset pst, ‘When we wih to evoke such memories ts enough i we lect ur % steno peng rt oft gp an lie cue Imoredatanttemores.Tocwoke suc memes, Hise once {baat our tention the elections which cca pay pein ‘Reape gonna ep en ‘Stocatony eseblnceiniecaseofdtantmenones ss sto speak fan assocationby contig inthe cse of cent memories For hind amocton ha ake pone retenon te memory rotso mach ne ofeemblane or cotigty as athe «commu of ret nd ‘ought is ot becuse thoughts ae sna tat we can evoke there Ss raherbecause the ante group interested in those memore, ands ‘bie to evoke them tht they ar stemblestogehersn ou ads Groups provide nvidol wit amewors within which ter me ven nt hued and emote by nnd of mapping We Sine what we recollect within the menial spaces provided by he group But these mental apres, Halbwacsinasted sways teceie suppor rm tnd efer back othe mater spaces that parca socal groupe ect Mecicoetsrmainc alu tad ie angele crnotatallsoprovngeswithaniogea permanence sid Sty; and he wet on fo show how ne clectve memory can ext Srthost reference 3s spe sata mework That ios, rg spc cm ee hy. onserve our alco by teleting them fb the ater mle that Stirounds us isto our seca spaces“ those which we ccupy, which ee frequent race without ep, where we svays hae srs, wc at homens au cen ey cng ta ve ma ccd wth the metal and eral spaces he ou Ths Halbwacis exp eed the separation ot he wo esos Har does the neva preserve and edltover memones? And how do feces prose and sieves meme? Warum lcl, he ‘dmonstned that he de of an nvidia neon, sec separate ffom sacl memory, isan sbstacSon almost devoid of meting. He Showed Row diferent socal segment, each with 2 dere past wl fave diferent memoser ataced tothe dierent tment! dhs ‘harecersicot the group inguesion. And hesngeut as llctatve of bis general thea the parsar cues of memory 8 works wethin chip groups wih regs groups and within sss. Yt Hale trace even though emake heen of obec eney centsPa sci emer Inglis dows nose tat imsgss of he pst a coated knowledge of ‘heprstreconvevedandsutaned by are oles) rival performances lee low the trend Halbwachy sargumentweareinevasiea io ‘he gostion gen that ferent group have ferent memories ech areparculr to them, Row ae hese colectve memos passedon WN {he sme social group rom one generation tothe nex Halbwachs dows site more than ine at anaes ath question, cnfnng hime fr he ‘ostpar o suggestions ha ae at ones ormulie ana anthropomorphic Thashesays thal socety tend a elite rw te ney every ing ‘nich could seperate india, or that at cera moments, sod ‘ign to become atch tone sles. that fo sy to depend pon ‘ther tations which are interrelation with te needa present ‘erences Such formulations, co-esing vo ncengraouly wi he patel and vvness of is many acute perceptions are evident ‘erived rom certain habe of language nd method in pri om Darktheimian vocabulary, chaacerieed by the employment with he ep {het alice’ of erms tore om nds pryehology. Trisha tinr blemish or cue, For if we arto sy tht © sal group whose ration exceeds thal ofthe espa ofan ange inavidl, abe fo remember in cormman, is ot stent thatthe various members ho ompore that group st ane given momen! shouldbe abe Wain the ‘penta vepresetaonsetng oe paste group. ss neces that ie older members of te group shoud ot meet ans the ‘presentations tothe younger members of the group. Il we mat enti to peak. with Halbwache of collective memory, ve mus owls tat mach of whats Being sbsured unde tht em eles {jute spy to fact of creeneicton hatween india, That te ‘emoerditerent sol groups doin fac communicate wit eachother ‘thie the group nw that re characteris that parte groupean Indes be lets rom what Halbwach ns But iis a mater Ons tc Ea eaves wth no pi ee och Bou ae The diay may be usted with tn example which Halbwacks mses. nthe course of dscussing tm memory ne speaks ee jandpaents is hewesinafagnentary wey end Ssitivere acon the eres ofthe presen! fami thatthe commana theicown memories tothe rendchicen= But how are we thnk sat ‘hese interae? What the ferark demonstates ia naliy to prnpant ‘hechaactestcactsolwanster andsotoconectuaise proper he was Inwhih the memetes of grandparents, asa socal group arevansmited {0 grander, a soc group. This ia are tn the terms of is Res gery and ens ager ae, eh Pg Accs catenin helactine net, octane adres payee id say {Seb enon of yng ng grein any Siri et athe say sos oy ceetipaunt nesantee pecs wesengere wer apeay Seer ea toot etrmeene oe Steere sven esrets pen tareen Eortetuty belief Seas we imtpcel sees SSecey aire est i et Pimeea Gactitptopletin ae en bongs end eet Reanat tenance te ta he pened Ernie te recaps wth coaen het teeaks mae nice ear een urate Tasca see en ane ee tetris plas Botitin corscbemsnegnamed ncocencemurg oat ion Ge cen ty nope he nt ec Se Sateen sige eather cael ie ty set ee ett og arcane cine rar agsscinal somaya dnc ec Sr eet “ier oho ned st en ae ‘henetlnotcunr este cme cr serene emetic ney ne Ep perasreih ante Gospel ange Kad ns mys tang meet Bade tat sy eco wBisctayambani eterna eisouion een ncn Soe siya bangers paar eanplesc empha ett Re crea eee eee eee ‘tr hits rneniregaconnen tice cid a een earache SSE ed nate ass i ngs wy tes Seer yee at Metta dont ea tee barn py see ecm nin nc Negi hints hangar naaHiner surat test adequately the fc of social persistence isto ths end thot have ingled out ssf tanlerofesclimporance, cone ‘ative ceremonies and boa paces. As we hve see, these te by no ‘ean the on oneents fcammona menoy othe peda | IRormlly ta arate stones both Basia for oar every haactersoton of aman actions an estore ofl cia erry Bol have seized upon commemocaive ceremonies and bodily paces in Paula because tis the study of these, vant ope that lead 0 Ec that images of the pst and recollected knowlege of the pest ae conveyed and sustained by (oreo ess tl performances Commemorative ceremonies ‘Between the eure of power in ary 195 and the outbreak of warn September 193, thesujetso the Tid Rech were constant reminded] tne National Socal Party and its ideology by a series of Commer ‘ur ofthene estas rapa asumed a canonical eran the ean ‘hat formant te dei of the Third eich. The Impact ft nee lnvente canon seouenc pervaded alphas fife the festalz the Recheing ested tthe lent of he Chsianclendarinmuchshe sate ‘ra Theealenaial tury ofthe National Soilit Party was regulated Thelitupcal yar began on 30 january with the anniversary of Miles seizure of power in 1983 On that dy each year Hers spech 0 the hg ratty nl procs th Ror tense ‘cession of 30 January 1983 was annually repeated; and the day ended with ‘eremony, Brodeast by radio fromm every tect comer at which ‘ghtee-yeanolde who had demanctate ques of leadership inthe 2A Febraryaceremonyexcusvey forthe nd guar’ commemorates the foundation ofthe Party the uncon’ fe immutable propramese ‘twenty-five points in the Hofbrdubausin 1920, Ye March was natal ‘ay of wouring, taken over rom the Weimar Republic and dedeated 1 {he memory of the dea ofthe Cre! War On the last Sunday of ver “Mavch fourteen year ols joined the Hier Youth i 2 nite of psnage ‘whove‘eel point n prec analogy eth theconfestn abet in Chest stcontenation nas thesineaingalleglanceto te Foner. she Fonts Birthday om 20 April wos cleted ssh 9 parade of the Wehemachthrough the Brandenburg Gite. The atonal esta of the Gesman people heldon May. ond originating asa workers festival wasstipped bf internationals overtones an ceinerpeetad ot clbraon of ‘German Vllagnsinhe: On Jane te miner solstice was celebrated by parades of the SS and filer Youth In aly September the Patty