Social memory
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Social memory
（New perspectives on the past）
Blackwell, 1992
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [203]-221
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
We remember the past in a number of different ways, some of which we can barely describe. But we talk about the past in more specific social contexts, at home, at work, in the bar, reminiscing about past experience or narrating past events with specific groups of family friends and colleagues. How people talk about the past helps define their identity. In this book the perspective, the philosophy and the psychology of remembering and the ways in which events are narrated are used to help work out how remembering and talking define societies in circumstances as diverse as medieval France and Iceland and contemporary Brazil and South Wales.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Remembering: on the things in our heads
- memory of history or history of memory?
- memory in its context. Part 2 The ordering and transmission of social memory: oral memory
- narrative memory
- oral tradition. Part 3 Class and group memories in Western societies: peasant memories
- working class memories
- national memories in the modern period
- women's memories. Part 4 Medieval memories. Part 5 Mafia and the myth of Sicilian national identity.
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