collective memory


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collective memory

n.
1. The ability of a community to remember events.
2. The collection of memories shared by a common culture.
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Similarly, Connerton's (1989) notion of incorporated memory speaks in favor of how collective memory may feed into one's social identity.
Ingroup contact, collective memory and social identity of catholic youth ministers: the importance of remembering past events
On the subject of collective memory, then, what do cognitive psychologists have to say to historians?
Memory in Mind and Culture
He distinguishes collective memory from autobiographical or historical memory by observing that the collective is socially constructed and socially triggered: "It is, of course, individuals who remember, not groups or institutions, but .
"They find you, those sons of Moses": collective memory and the disconnected Jew
If the loss of memory results in damage of tragic consequences to the individual, albeit unconscious damage, which is often impossible to recover in terms of personal and cultural identity, the possible loss of collective memory in societies amounts to a level of damage that we could not even imagine.
Film languages in the European collective memory/Lenguajes filmicos en la memoria colectiva de Europa
Her questions include the basics of collective memory, but also how we collectively resolve controversies, how those resolutions occur, and how collective memory influences the recall of more recent events (pp.
Edy, Jill A.: Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest
Her interdisciplinary exploration of the complexities of individual and collective memory shows why Schlussstrichdebatten remain premature in Germany's politics of memory.
Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit: Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik
This paper aims at explaining why the combined methods of life history and collective memory are considered useful in analyzing teachers' professionalism.
Life history and collective memory as methodological strategies: studying teacher professionalism
This turning point is occurring at a critical moment, and probably reflects the convergence of individual memories of Africans around the globe towards a uniform space of collective memory in the face of culture and history, politics and economics.
Worthy achievements of 2007
Revision in the collective memory of Eastern Europe began in the mid-1980s--before the fall of the Berlin Wall and breakdown of the Soviet system in Poland and the USSR.
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe
Specifically, how does a text such as Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, which seeks to straddle the divide of personal, individualised memory and collective memory, contribute to this process in post-apartheid South Africa?
Remembering to forget: testimony, collective memory and the genesis of the 'new' South African nation in Country of My Skull
This secondary process not only determines an item's importance to the collective memory of society, but also creates a unitary fiction about what is valued and worth attending to through the costly processes of long-term preservation.
Guarding against collective amnesia? Making significance problematic: an exploration of issues
Brundage's research usefully exposes the constant harnessing of collective memory in the South to contemporary political ends.
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
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