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Title

A companion to cultural memory studies / edited by Astrid Erll, Ansgar Nünning ; in collaboration with Sara B. Young.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Erll, Astrid
• Nünning, Ansgar

Description

viii, 441 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This companion represents the interdisciplinary and international field of a oecultural memory studiesa in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The book not only documents current research in an unprecedented way; it also serves as a forum for bringing together approaches from areas as varied as sociology, political sciences, history, theology, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, psychology, and neurosciences.

Uniform Title

Cultural memory studies.

Subject

• Kollektives Gedächtnis
• Culture
• Memory > Cross-cultural studies
• Collective memory
• études culturelles > mémoire collective > études diverses

Genre/Form

• Cross-cultural studies
• Handboeken (vorm)

Note

• Earlier ed. published as: Cultural memory studies : an international and interdisciplinary handbook / edited by Astrid Erll, Ansgar Nünning in collaboration with Sara B. Young. 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Jeffrey K. Olick, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, and Daniel Levy -- From Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke -- From Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- From "On the uses and disadvantages of history for life" / Friedrich Nietzsche -- From "What is a nation?" / Ernest Renan -- From Totem and taboo: resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and neurotics and Moses and monotheism / Sigmund Freud -- From "The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" / Karl Marx -- From "The sociological problem of generations" / Karl Mannheim -- From "The storyteller" and "Theses on the philosophy of history" / Walter Benjamin -- From Aby Warburg: an intellectual biography / Ernst Gombrich -- From "Valery proust museum" and "In memory of Eichendorff" / Theodor W. Adorno -- From "Mind in society" / Lev Vygotsky -- From Remembering: a study in experimental and social psychology / Frederic Bartlett -- From "Everyman his own historian" / Carl Becker -- From "The nature of the past" / George Herbert Mead -- From Social process / Charles Horton Cooley -- From The elementary forms of religious life / Emile Durkheim -- From The collective memory / Maurice Halbwachs -- From "Memoire collective, tradition et coutume: A propos d'un livre recent" ["Collective memory, custom, and tradition: about a recent book"] / Marc Bloch -- From "Revue critique: M. Halbwachs Les cadres sociaux de la memoire" ["Critical review of M. Halbwachs Les cadres sociaux de la memoire"] / Charles Blondel -- From The African religions of Brazil: toward a sociology of the enterpretation of civilizations / Roger Bastide -- From The living and the dead: a study of the symbolic life of Americans / W. Lloyd Warner -- From The Nuer: a description of the modes of livelihood and political institutions of a Nilotic people / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- From The savage mind / Claude Levi-Strauss --
• From Truth and method / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- From Remembering: a phenomenological study / Edward Casey -- From "History as social memory" / Peter Burke -- From "History, Memory, Identity" / Allan Megill -- From "Collective memory and cultural history: problems of method" / Alon Confino -- From Zakhor: Jewish history and Jewish memory / Yosef Haim Yerushalmi -- From Moses the Egyptian: the memory of Egypt in western monotheism and "Collective memory and cultural identity" / Jan Assmann -- From Invitation to sociology: a humanistic approach / Peter Berger -- From "Social memories: steps towards a sociology of the past" / Eviatar Zerubavel -- From "Collective memory: the two cultures" / Jeffrey K. Olick -- From Habits of the heart: individualism and commitment in American life / Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton -- From The ethnic origins of nations / Anthony Smith -- From Recovered roots: collective memory and the making of Israeli national tradition / Yael Zerubavel -- From Abraham Lincoln and the forge of American memory / Barry Schwartz --
• From "Film in popular memory: an interview with Michael Foucault" / Michael Foucault -- From "Popular memory: theory, politics, method" / Popular Memory Group -- From Theatres of memory / Raphael Samuel -- From Remaking America: public memory, commemoration and patriotism in the twentieth century / John Bodnar -- From The presence of the past: popular uses of history in American life / Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen -- From "Introduction: inventing traditions" / Eric Hobsbawm -- From "The invention of tradition revisited: the case of colonial Africa" / Terence Ranger -- From Slavery and social death: a comparative study / Orlando Patterson -- From "Disturbing memories" / Richard Sennett -- From "The past in the present versus the present in the past" / Micael Schudson -- From "Recognition and renown: the survival of artistic reputation" / Gladys Lang and Kurt Lang -- From "The construction of nonpersonhood and demonization: commemorating the 'traitorous' reputation of Benedict Arnold" / Lori Ducharme and Gary Alan Fine -- From "Finding meaning in memory: a methodological critique of collective memory studies" / Wulf Kansteiner -- From "The past in the present: culture and the transmission of memory" / Ron Eyerman -- From "Toward a cultural theory of trauma" / Jeffrey Alexander --
• From Gesture and speech / Andre Leroi-Gourhan -- From "Memory in oral and literate traditions" / Jack Goody -- From Origins of the modern mind: three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition / Merlin Donald -- From "Canon and archive" / Aleida Assmann -- From How societies remember / Paul Connerton -- From "Opa war kein Nazi:" nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im familiengedachtnis [Grandpa wasn't a Nazi: national socialism and Holocaust in family memory] / Harald Welzer, Sabine Moller, Karoline Tschuggnall, Olaf Jensen, and Torsten Koch -- From "The generation of postmemory" / Marianne Hirsch -- From "Tradition and self in a mediated world" / John B. Thompson -- From Time passages: collective memory and American popular culture / George Lipsitz -- From "Why memory's work on journalism does not reflect journalism's work on memory" / Barbie Zelizer -- From Media events: the live broadcasting of history / Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz -- From "War memorials: identity formations of the survivors" / Reinhart Koselleck -- From At memory's edge: after-images of the Holocaust in contemporary art and architecture / James E. Young -- From "Commemorating a difficult past: Yitzhak Rabin's memorials" / Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi -- From The city of collective memory: its historical imagery and architectural entertainments / M. Christine Boyer -- From Religion as a chain of memory / Daniele Hervieu-Leger -- From Lethe: the art and critique of forgetting / Harald Weinrich -- From "Memories in the making: the shapes of things that went" / Robin Wagner-Pacifici --
• From Tradition / Edward Shils -- From "Memory sciences, memory politics" / Ian Hacking -- From History as an art of memory / Patrick Hutton -- From "Living in a post-traditional society" / Anthony Giddens -- From Lost time: on remembering and forgetting in late modern culture / David Gross -- From Remembering war: the great war between memory and history in the twentieth century / Jay Winter -- From "Present pasts: media, politics, amnesia" / Andreas Huyssen -- From "Reasons for the current upsurge in memory" / Pierre Nora -- From "A sufeit of memory? Reflections on history, melancholy, and denial" / Charles Maier -- From Yearning for yesterday: a sociology of nostalgia / Fred Davis -- From "Nostalgia and its discontents" / Svetlana Boym -- From "Abortive rituals: historical apologies in the global era" / Michel-Rolph Trouillot -- From "Memory unbound: the Holocaust and the formation of cosmopolitan memory" / Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider -- From Mass atrocity, collective memory, and the law / Mark Osiel -- From The ethics of memory / Avishai Margalit -- From Oblivion / Marc Auge -- From "Memory - history - forgetting" / Paul Ricoeur.

ISBN

• 9783110229981 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 3110229986 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010012403

OCLC

• 595738922
• SCSB-12332323

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library