communicative GENRES that are drawn from a cultural repertoire of genres that have been learnt through socialization. Memory therefore is bound to cultural media and forms; it is the shaping of memory upon the lineaments of these media and forms that renders it communicable and externalizes it into the social sphere. Moreover, it is in the course of sharing and rehearsing memories in the groups for which they hold pertinence, that is, in commemorative remembering, that the standardized forms of a