Handbook of culture and memory /

In 'Handbook of Culture and Memory', an interdisciplinary group of contributors provide new models of the complex interrelationships between people's memory and their social relationships, group stories and history, monuments, rituals and material artifacts.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wagoner, Brady, 1980- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:Frontiers of culture and psychology.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : remembering as a psychological and social-cultural process / Brady Wagoner
  • Part I. Concept and history of memory. The evolutionary origins of human cultural memory / Merlin Donald
  • From memory as archive to remembering as conversation / Jens Brockmeier
  • Discerning the history inscribed within : significant sites of the narrative unconscious / Mark Freeman
  • Part II. Cultural contexts of remembering. The landscape of family memory / Bradd Shore and Sara Kauko
  • Materiality of memory : the case of the remembrance poppy / Kyoko Murakami
  • Approaches to testimony : two current views and beyond / Kotaro Takagi and Naohisa Mori
  • Rethinking function, self, and culture in "difficult" autobiographical memories / Steve D. Brown and Paula Reavey
  • Part III. Memory through the life course. The cultural construction of memory in early childhood / Katherine Nelson
  • Memory in life transitions / Constance de Saint Laurent and Tania Zittoun
  • Memory in old age : a lifespan perspective / Dieter Ferring
  • Part IV. Memory, history, and identity. National memory and where to find it / James V. Wertsch
  • History, collective memories, or national memories? : how the representation of the past is framed by master narratives / Mario Carretero and Floor van Alphen
  • Media and the dynamics of memory : from cultural paradigms to transcultural premediation / Astrid Erll.