Memory in mind and culture / edited by Pascal Boyer, James V. Wertsch.

Other author Boyer, Pascal.
Other author Wertsch, James V.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Descriptionviii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Memory--Social aspects.
Collective memory.
Recollection (Psychology)
Cognition and culture.
Oral tradition.

Contents What are memories for? Functions of recall in cognition and culture / Pascal Boyer -- Networks of autobiographical memories / Helen L. Williams & Martin A. Conway -- Cultural life scripts and individual life stories / Dorthe Berntsen & Annette Bohn -- Specificity of memory : implications for individual and collective remembering / Daniel L. Schacter, Angela H. Gutchess, & Elizabeth A. Kensinger -- Collective memory / James V. Wertsch -- The role of repeated retrieval in shaping collective memory / Henry L. Roediger III, Franklin M. Zaromb, & Andrew C. Butler -- Making history : social and psychological processes underlying collective memory / James W. Pennebaker & Amy L. Gonzales -- How does collective memory create a sense of the collective? / Alan J. Lambert ... [et al.] -- Historical memories / Craig W. Blatz & Michael Ross -- The memory boom : why and why now? / David W. Blight -- Historians and sites of memory / Jay Winter -- Oral traditions as collective memories : implications for a general theory of individual and collective memory / David C. Rubin -- Cognitive predispositions and cultural transmission / Pascal Boyer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009007297
ISBN9780521760782 (hardback)
ISBN052176078X (hardback)
ISBN9780521758925 (pbk.)
ISBN0521758920 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks BF378.S65 M475 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold