Paul Connerton, a pioneer in social memory studies, currently serves as Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and as Fellow of the Institute of Romance Studies at University College London.  Connerton approaches memory as a cultural construction rather than as purely individual psychological phenomena.  In his 1989 work, How Societies Remember, Connerton distinguishes between inscribed and incorporated (embodied) memory.  Connerton separates the two by associating inscribed memory with representations such as texts and monuments, and by defining incorporated (embodied) memory as that which people transmit to one another through co-bodily interaction such as that involved in community rituals.  Connerton’s work, particularly his notion of inscribed memory, has served to inspire research of the same vein in the field of archaeology.