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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 organized 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, emphasizing 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.
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The book will provide largely non-technical answers to questions about human memory and its role in making us who we are and making societies what they are, such as: Is memory accurate? What makes some of our own memories vivid? Could we be a self if we did not have our "own" memories? Some of the best memory scholars in the world - psychologists, historians, anthropologists - provide an easy and precise introduction to the most recent research in these different fields.
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Pascal Boyer studied philosophy and anthropology at the Universities of Paris and Cambridge, where he did his graduate work with Professor Jack Goody, on memory constraints on the transmission of oral literature. He has done anthropological fieldwork in Cameroon on the transmission of the Fang oral epics and on Fang traditional religion. Since then he has worked mostly on the experimental study of cognitive capacities underlying cultural transmission. After teaching in Cambridge, San Diego, Lyon, and Santa Barbara, Boyer moved to his present position at the departments of anthropology and psychology at Washington University, St. Louis.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 052176078X
- ISBN 13 9780521760782
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages332
- EditorBoyer Pascal, Wertsch James V.
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