Voices Of Collective Remembering

Author : James V. Wertsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008808
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Collective Remembering written by James V. Wertsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on numerous fields to provide a comprehensive review of collective memory.

Author : James V. Wertsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197551483
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Nations Remember written by James V. Wertsch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Nations Remember draws on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to examine how a nation's account of the past shapes its actions in the present. National memory can underwrite noble aspirations, but the volume focuses largely on how it contributes to the negative tendencies of nationalism that give rise to confrontation. Narratives are taken as units of analysis for examining the psychological and cultural dimensions of remembering particular events and also for understanding the schematic codes and mental habits that underlie national memory more generally. In this account, narratives are approached as tools that shape the views of members of national communities to such an extent that they serve as co-authors of what people say and think. Drawing on illustrations from Russia, China, Georgia, the United States, and elsewhere, the book examines how "narrative templates," "narrative dialogism," and "privileged event narratives" shape nations' views of themselves and their relations with others. The volume concludes with a list of ways to manage the disputes that pit one national community against another.

Author : James V. Wertsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197551467
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Nations Remember written by James V. Wertsch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Nations Remember draws on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to examine how a nation's account of the past shapes its actions in the present. National memory can underwrite noble aspirations, but the volume focuses largely on how it contributes to the negative tendencies of nationalism that give rise to confrontation. Narratives are taken as units of analysis for examining the psychological and cultural dimensions of remembering particular events and also for understanding the schematic codes and mental habits that underlie national memory more generally. In this account, narratives are approached as tools that shape the views of members of national communities to such an extent that they serve as co-authors of what people say and think. Drawing on illustrations from Russia, China, Georgia, the United States, and elsewhere, the book examines how "narrative templates," "narrative dialogism," and "privileged event narratives" shape nations' views of themselves and their relations with others. The volume concludes with a list of ways to manage the disputes that pit one national community against another.

Author : Ludmila Isurin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107175852
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Remembering written by Ludmila Isurin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isurin presents a case study of Russian collective memory as it is constructed by producers and consumed by people.

Author : Maurice Halbwachs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677449X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Collective Memory written by Maurice Halbwachs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge. Halbwachs' primary thesis is that human memory can only function within a collective context. Collective memory, Halbwachs asserts, is always selective; various groups of people have different collective memories, which in turn give rise to different modes of behavior. Halbwachs shows, for example, how pilgrims to the Holy Land over the centuries evoked very different images of the events of Jesus' life; how wealthy old families in France have a memory of the past that diverges sharply from that of the nouveaux riches; and how working class construction of reality differ from those of their middle-class counterparts. With a detailed introduction by Lewis A. Coser, this translation will be an indispensable source for new research in historical sociology and cultural memory. Lewis A. Coser is Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Boston College.

Author : David Middleton
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780803982352
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Remembering written by David Middleton and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profoundly challenging the traditional view of memory as the product and property of individual minds, Collective Remembering is concerned with remembering and forgetting as socially constituted activities. The starting point is a conceptualization of remembering and forgetting as forms of social action. Individual memories cannot be understood as `internal mental processes' which occur independently of the interpretive and communicative practices which characterize a particular society or culture. Individuals `read', account for and negotiate their memories within the pragmatics of social life. Contributions also explore the collective processes through which communities' social memories are created, sustained and transformed

Author : Pascal Boyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176078X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory in Mind and Culture written by Pascal Boyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Iwona Irwin-Zarecka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351519255
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frames of Remembrance written by Iwona Irwin-Zarecka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the symbolic impact of the Vietnam War Memorial? How does television change our engagement with the past? Can the efforts to wipe out Communist legacies succeed? Should victims of the Holocaust be celebrated as heroes or as martyrs? These questions have a great deal in common, yet they are typically asked separately by people working in distinct research areas in different disciplines. Frames of Remembrance shares ideas and concerns across such divides.

Author : Karin Tilmans
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089642056
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing the Past written by Karin Tilmans and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale. --

Author : J. M. Winter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127529
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering War written by J. M. Winter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the "memory boom" is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says. The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in memory, then describes practices of remembrance that have linked history and memory, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. The author also considers "theaters of memory"-film, television, museums, and war crimes trials in which the past is seen through public representations of memories. The book concludes with reflections on the significance of these practices for the cultural history of the twentieth century as a whole.