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2009
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 organised 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, emphasising 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.
Cultural memory studies : an international and interdisciplinary handbook
De Gruyter eBooks, 2008
Over the past two decades, the relationship between culture and memory has emerged in many parts of the world as a key issue of interdisciplinary research, involving fields as diverse as history, sociology, art, literary and media studies, philosophy, theology, psychology, and the neurosciences, and thus bringing tagether the humanities, social studies, and the natural sciences in a unique way. The importance of the nation of cultural mem ory is not only documented by the rapid growth, since the late 1980s, of publications on specific national, social, religious, or family memories, but also by a more recent trend, namely attempts to provide overviews of the state of the art in this emerging field and to synthesize different research traditions. Anthologies of theoretical texts, such as The Collective Memory Reader (Olick et al.), as weil as the launch of the new journal Memory Studies testify to the need to bring focus to this broad discussion and to consider the theoretical and methodological standards of a promising, but also as yet incoherent and dispersed field (cf. Olick; Radstone; Erll). The present handbook represents the shared effort of forty-one authors, all of whom have contributed over the past years, from a variety of disciplinary per spectives, to the development of this nascent field, and it is part of the effort to consolidate memory studies into a more coherent discipline. It is a first step on the road towards a conceptual foundation for the kind of memory studies which assumes a decidedly cultural and social perspective. "Cultural" (ar, if you will, "collective," "social") memory is certainly a multifarious nation, a term often used in an ambiguous and vague way. Media, practices, and structures as diverse as myth, monuments, historiog raphy, ritual, conversational rememberihg, configurations of cultural knowledge, and neuronal networks are nowadays subsumed under this wide umbrella term. Because of its intricacy, cultural memory has been a highly controversial issue ever since its very conception in Maurice Halbwachs's studies on memoire collective (esp. 1925, 1941, 1950). His con temporary Marc Bloch accused Halbwachs of simply transferring concepts from individual psychology to the level of the collective, and even today scholars continue to challenge the nation of collective or cultural memory, c1ai.ming, for example, that since we have well-established concepts like "myth," "tradition," and "individual memory," there is no need for a
Memory, Identity and Cognition: Explorations in Culture and Communication
Springer, 2019
The book analyses a variety of topics and current issues in linguistics and literary studies, focusing especially on such aspects as memory, identity and cognition. Firstly, it discusses the notion of memory and the idea of reimagining, as well as coming to terms with the past. Secondly, it studies the relationship between perception, cognition and language use. It then investigates a variety of practices of language users, language learners and translators, such as the use of borrowings from hip-hop and slang. The book is intended for researchers in the fields of linguistics and literary studies, lecturers teaching undergraduate and master’s students on courses in language and literature.
The relationship between culture and memory has arisen in different fields of researches like history, sociology, art, philosophy, theology, psychology etc. in last twenty years. In this manner, the humanities, social studies and the natural studies were bridged. The importance of the concept of cultural memory can be documented by attempts to synthesize different research traditions as well as by vast amount of publication on social, religious or family memories since the late 1980s.
2018
This paper discusses the issue of the relationship of history and memory. Memory becomes a topic in historical discourses as it deals with identity, especially when we speak of collective memory. The paper presents the history of the relationship of history and memory and suggests a thesis according to which the close interaction between these two concepts can solve the crisis of identity that has been most urgent in our days.