Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Boyer, Pascal.
• Wertsch, James V.

Description

viii, 323 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Recollection (Psychology)
• Collective memory
• Oral tradition
• Cognition and culture
• Memory > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. In Mind, Culture, and History: A Special Perspective -- 1. What Are Memories For? Functions of Recall in Cognition and Culture / Pascal Boyer -- Pt. II. How Do Memories Construct Our Past? -- 2. Networks of Autobiographical Memories / Helen L. Williams and Martin A. Conway -- 3. Cultural Life Scripts and Individual Life Stories / Dorthe Berntsen and Annette Bohn -- 4. Specificity of Memory: Implications for Individual and Collective Remembering / Daniel L. Schecter, Angela H. Gutchess and Elizabeth A. Kensinger -- Pt. III. How Do We Build Shared Collective Memories? -- 5. Collective Memory / James V. Wertsch -- 6. The Role of Repeated Retrieval in Shaping Collective Memory / Henry L. Roediga III, Franklin M. Zaromb and Andrew C. Butler -- 7. Making History: Social and Psychological Processes Underlying Collective Memory / James W. Pennebaker and Amy L. Gonzales -- 8. How Does Collective Memory Create a Sense of the Collective? / Alan J. Lambert, Laura Nesse Scherer, Chad Rogers and Larry Jacoby -- Pt. IV. How Does Memory Shape History? -- 9. Historical Memories / Craig W. Blatz and Michael Ross -- 10. The Memory Boom: Why and Why Now? / David W. Blight -- 11. Historians and Sites of Memory / Jay Winter -- Pt. V. How Does Memory Shape Culture? -- 12. Oral Traditions as Collective Memories: Implications for a General Theory of Individual and Collective Memory / David C. Rubin -- 13. Cognitive Predispositions and Cultural Transmission / Pascal Boyer.

ISBN

• 9780521760782 (hardback)
• 052176078X (hardback)
• 9780521758925 (pbk.)
• 0521758920 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2009007297
• 40016847821

OCLC

• ocn297147063
• 297147063
• SCSB-5479559

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries