Memory in mind and culture
This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories...
| Otros Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798349906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Part 1: In Mind, Culture, and History: A Special Perspective; 1 What Are Memories For? Functions of Recall in Cognition and Culture; Part II: How Do Memories Construct Our Past?; References; 2 Networks of Autobiographical Memories; 3 Cultural Life Scripts and Individual Life Stories; 4 Specificity of Memory: Implications for Individual and Collective Remembering; Part III: How Do We Build Shared Collective Memories?; References; 5 Collective Memory; 6 The Role of Repeated Retrieval in Shaping Collective Memory
- 7 Making History Social and Psychological Processes Underlying Collective Memory8 How Does Collective Memory Create a Sense of the Collective?; Part IV: How Does Memory Shape History?; References; 9 Historical Memories; 10 The Memory Boom: Why and Why Now?; 11 Historians and Sites of Memory; Part V: How Does Memory Shape Culture?; References; 12 Oral Traditions as Collective Memories: Implications for a General Theory of Individual and Collective Memory; 13 Cognitive Predispositions and Cultural Transmission; Index
