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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boyer, Pascal, Wertsch, James V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What are memories for? Functions of recall in cognition and culture / Pascal Boyer
  • Networks of autobiographical memories / Helen L. Williams & Martin A. Conway
  • Cultural life scripts and individual life stories / Dorthe Berntsen & Annette Bohn
  • Specificity of memory : implications for individual and collective remembering / Daniel L. Schacter, Angela H. Gutchess, & Elizabeth A. Kensinger
  • Collective memory / James V. Wertsch
  • The role of repeated retrieval in shaping collective memory / Henry L. Roediger III, Franklin M. Zaromb, & Andrew C. Butler
  • Making history : social and psychological processes underlying collective memory / James W. Pennebaker & Amy L. Gonzales
  • How does collective memory create a sense of the collective? / Alan J. Lambert ... [et al.]
  • Historical memories / Craig W. Blatz & Michael Ross
  • The memory boom : why and why now? / David W. Blight
  • Historians and sites of memory / Jay Winter
  • Oral traditions as collective memories : implications for a general theory of individual and collective memory / David C. Rubin
  • Cognitive predispositions and cultural transmission / Pascal Boyer.