Collective Remembering

by David Middleton

Book Overview

Profoundly challenging the traditional view of memory as the product and property of individual minds, Collective Remembering is concerned with remembering and forgetting as socially constituted activities. The starting point is a conceptualization of remembering and forgetting as forms of social action. Individual memories cannot be understood as internal mental processes′ which occur independently of the interpretive and communicative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803982356
• ISBN13: 9780803982352
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.1"