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Memory in mind and culture

Pascal Boyer; James V Wertsch

New York Cambridge University Press 2009

Localização: FFCLRP - Fac. Fil. Ciên. Let. de R. Preto    (159.953 M533 30610 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Memory in mind and culture
  • Autor: Pascal Boyer; James V Wertsch
  • Assuntos: Memory -- Social aspects; Collective memory; Recollection (Psychology); Cognition and culture; Oral tradition; MEMÓRIA (ASPECTOS PSICOLÓGICOS); COGNIÇÃO (CULTURA)
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Descrição: What are memories for? Functions of recall in cognition and culture / Networks of autobiographical memories / Cultural life scripts and individual life stories / Specificity of memory : implications for individual and collective remembering / Collective memory / The role of repeated retrieval in shaping collective memory / Making history : social and psychological processes underlying collective memory / How does collective memory create a sense of the collective? / Historical memories / The memory boom : why and why now? / Historians and sites of memory / Oral traditions as collective memories : implications for a general theory of individual and collective memory / Cognitive predispositions and cultural transmission /
    This text introduces 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 organized around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? --from publisher description
  • Editor: New York Cambridge University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2009
  • Formato: viii, 323 p ill 23 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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