Memory in Mind and Culture
Memory in Mind and Culture

Author: Pascal Boyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-06-08

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 052176078X

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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 construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective, emphasising the role of memory processes in the construction of self-identity, of shared cultural norms and concepts, and of historical awareness. Although the results are fairly new and the techniques suitably modern, the vision itself is of course related to the work of such precursors as Frederic Bartlett and Aleksandr Luria, who in very different ways represent the starting point of a serious psychology of human culture.

Memory
Memory

Author: Thomas Butler

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1989-01

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9780631164425

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Essays deal with the psychological, social, artistic, historical, and political aspects of human memory

Memory and Material Culture
Memory and Material Culture

Author: Andrew Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-09-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139465600

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We take for granted the survival into the present of artifacts from the past. Indeed the discipline of archaeology would be impossible without the survival of such artifacts. What is the implication of the durability or ephemerality of past material culture for the reproduction of societies in the past? In this book, Andrew Jones argues that the material world offers a vital framework for the formation of collective memory. He uses the topic of memory to critique the treatment of artifacts as symbols by interpretative archaeologists and artifacts as units of information (or memes) by behavioral archaeologists, instead arguing for a treatment of artifacts as forms of mnemonic trace that have an impact on the senses. Using detailed case studies from prehistoric Europe, he further argues that archaeologists can study the relationship between mnemonic traces in the form of networks of reference in artifactual and architectural forms.

Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory
Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory

Author: Astrid Erll

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 3110204444

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The specific concern of this collection is linking the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus rests in particular on two aspects of media use: the basic dynamics of mediation and remediation. The key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered?

Memory, Identity and Cognition: Explorations in Culture and Communication
Memory, Identity and Cognition: Explorations in Culture and Communication

Author: Jacek Mianowski

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 3030125904

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The book analyses a variety of topics and current issues in linguistics and literary studies, focusing especially on such aspects as memory, identity and cognition. Firstly, it discusses the notion of memory and the idea of reimagining, as well as coming to terms with the past. Secondly, it studies the relationship between perception, cognition and language use. It then investigates a variety of practices of language users, language learners and translators, such as the use of borrowings from hip-hop and slang. The book is intended for researchers in the fields of linguistics and literary studies, lecturers teaching undergraduate and master’s students on courses in language and literature.

The Book of Memory
The Book of Memory

Author: Mary Carruthers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 875

ISBN-13: 1107652251

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Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).

Religion and Cultural Memory
Religion and Cultural Memory

Author: Jan Assmann

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780804745239

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In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive view of the life of the past in such surface phenomena as codes, religious rites and festivals, and canonical texts on the one hand, and in the Freudian psychodrama of repressing and resurrecting the past on the other. Whereas the current fad for oral history inevitably focuses on the actual memories of the last century or so, Assmann presents a commanding view of culture extending over five thousand years. He focuses on cultural memory from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and the Osage Indians down to recent controversies about memorializing the Holocaust in Germany and the role of memory in the current disputes between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East and between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.

Memory Against Culture
Memory Against Culture

Author: Johannes Fabian

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780822340775

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Recent essays by prominent anthropologist on questions of time, memory, and ethnography.

Handbook of Culture and Memory
Handbook of Culture and Memory

Author: Brady Wagoner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0190230819

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In the Handbook of Culture and Memory, Brady Wagoner and his team of international contributors explore how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other cultural devices. Culture is seen as the medium through which people live and make meaning of their lives. In this book, analyses focus on the mutual constitution of people's memories and the social-cultural worlds to which they belong. The complex relationship between culture and memory is explored in: the concept of memory and its relation to evolution, neurology and history; life course changes in memory from its development in childhood to its decline in old age; and the national and transnational organization of collective memory and identity through narratives propagated in political discourse, the classroom, and the media.

Metaphors of Memory
Metaphors of Memory

Author: D. Draaisma

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-12-07

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521650243

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First published in 2000, this book explores the metaphors used by philosophers and psychologists to understand memory over the centuries.