...Anthropologists simply fail to appreciate the role of habitual action in structuring human lives. "Habit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body; and in the cultivation of habit it is our body which 'understands'" (Connerton 1984, 95; cited in Halpin...

...Anthropologists simply fail to appreciate the role of habitual action in structuring human lives. "Habit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body; and in the cultivation of habit it is our body which 'understands'" (Connerton 1984, 95; cited in Halpin...

...a sign which exists on a separate 'level' outside the immediate sphere of the body's acts. Habit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body; and in the cultivation of habit it is our body which 'understands.' " 14 In distinguishing between...

...a sign which exists on a separate 'level' outside the immediate sphere of the body's acts. Habit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body; and in the cultivation of habit it is our body which 'understands.'" (Ibid.)2 How and why touch typing...

..."We remember this through the knowledge bred of familiarity in our lived space." He adds, "Habit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body; and in the cultivation of habit it is our body which 'understands.'"38 The difference, of course, between...

...(which Connerton differentiates from inscribed or written practices) are socially learned: "[h]abit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body" (Connerton 1989: 95). Through his exploration of habitual practices Conneiton calls attention to the...

...the human and cosmic, biological, 25 Haw Societirs Remember, 88. Connerton later writes, "Habit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body and in the cultivation of habit, it is our body which 'understands'" (ibid., 95). and social orders,...

...a sign which exists on a separate "level" outside the immediate sphere of the body's acts. Habit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body; and in the cultivation of habit it is our body which "understands." (Connerton 1989: 95) By the time...

...habit requires a restating of the notions of "understanding" and "body"; he insists that "habit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body. In the cultivation of habit it is our body which 'understands.'"73 Using habit instead of disposition...

...the social and political scientist Paul Connerton and others have argued, has great power: "Habit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body; and in the cultivation of a habit it is our body which understands."29 It seemed that from the children's...