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Cultural memory and early civilization : writing, remembrance, and political imagination /

"Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity, and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human memory exists and is communicated in two ways, namely inter-human interaction and in external syst...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Assmann, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The theoretical basis
  • Memory culture
  • Written culture
  • Cultural identity and political imagination
  • pt. 2. Case studies
  • Egypt
  • Israel and the invention of religion
  • The birth of history from the spirit of the law
  • Greece and disciplined thinking
  • Cultural memory : a summary.