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What exactly do you mean by being "rigorous about them"?
Some seemingly 'rigorous' ways of studying memes that spring to mind:
It's not clear that memes are copied with a high enough degree of fidelity to really be subject to evolution by natural selection, but they certainly share the other structural characteristics of genes, namely variation and differential fitness.