Memory in Mind and Culture (Hardcover)

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 organized around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective, emphasizing the role of memory processes in the construction of self-identity, of shared cultural norms and concepts, and of historical awareness. Although the results are fairly new and the techniques suitably modern, the vision itself is of course related to the work of such precursors as Frederic Bartlett and Aleksandr Luria, who in very different ways represent the starting point of a serious psychology of human culture.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Pascal Boyer • James V Wertsch
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	332
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-76078-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Memory Promotions
LSN:	0-521-76078-X
Barcode:	9780521760782

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