Memory in Mind and Culture.

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This book will provide answers to questions about human memory and its role in making us who we are and making societies what they are.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boyer, Pascal
Other Authors: Wertsch, James V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Memory > Social aspects.
Collective memory.
Recollection (Psychology)
Cognition and culture.
Oral tradition.
Mémoire collective.
Rappel (Psychologie)
Cognition et culture.
Tradition orale.
Cognition and culture
Collective memory
Memory > Social aspects
Oral tradition
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Colle.

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