ENGLISH

Social Memory

By James Fentress , Chris Wickham

Book information

Publisher
Blackwell
Year
1992
ISBN
0631166181, 9780631166184, 063116619X, 9780631166191
LCC
BF378.S65 F46 1992
Google Books ID
sC-eQgAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL1547641M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6661944 bytes)
Series
New Perspectives on the Past
Pages
241\241
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

We remember the past in a number of different ways, some of which we can barely describe. But we talk about the past in more specific social contexts, at home, at work, in the bar, reminiscing about past experience or narrating past events with specific groups of family friends and colleagues. How people talk about the past helps define their identity. In this book the perspective, the philosophy and the psychology of remembering and the ways in which events are narrated are used to help work out how remembering and talking define societies in circumstances as diverse as medieval France and Iceland and contemporary Brazil and South Wales.

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