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    The Collective Memory Reader

    The Collective Memory Reader by Olick, Jeffrey K.; Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered; Levy, Daniel;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 10 March 2011

    • ISBN 9780195337419
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages528 pages
    • Size 188x254x43 mm
    • Weight 1066 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    The Collective Memory Reader provides a wide array of texts that underwrite the field of memory studies. Taken together, these seminal texts, hard-to-find classics, previsouly untranslated material, unusual extensions, and contemporary landmarks provide a definitive entry point into the field for students and an essential resource for scholars.

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    Long description:

    There are few terms or concepts that have, in the last twenty or so years, rivaled "collective memory" for attention in the humanities and social sciences. Indeed, use of the term has extended far beyond scholarship to the realm of politics and journalism, where it has appeared in speeches at the centers of power and on the front pages of the world's leading newspapers. The current efflorescence of interest in memory, however, is no mere passing fad: it is a hallmark characteristic of our age and a crucial site for understanding our present social, political, and cultural conditions. Scholars and others in numerous fields have thus employed the concept of collective memory, sociological in origin, to guide their inquiries into diverse, though allegedly connected, phenomena. Nevertheless, there remains a great deal of confusion about the meaning, origin, and implication of the term and the field of inquiry it underwrites.

    The Collective Memory Reader presents, organizes, and evaluates past work and contemporary contributions on the questions raised under the rubric of collective memory. Combining seminal texts, hard-to-find classics, previously untranslated references, and contemporary landmarks, it will serve as an essential resource for teaching and research in the field. In addition, in both its selections as well as in its editorial materials, it suggests a novel life-story for the field, one that appreciates recent innovations but only against the background of a long history.

    In addition to its major editorial introduction, which outlines a useful past for contemporary memory studies, The Collective Memory Reader includes five sections--Precursors and Classics; History, Memory, and Identity; Power, Politics, and Contestation; Media and Modes of Transmission; Memory, Justice, and the Contemporary Epoch--comprising ninety-one texts. In addition to the essay introducing the entire volume, a brief editorial essay introduces each of the sections, while brief capsules frame each of the 91 texts.

    This collection is impressive on so many levels that it is difficult to avoid the pat assessment that this is a 'must-have book' for all scholars and students, novice or veteran, interested in the encompassing subject matter.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface and Acknowledgments
    Introduction: Jeffrey K. Olick, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, and Daniel Levy
    Precursors and Classics
    Introduction to Part One
    Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France.
    Alexis de Tocqueville, from Democracy in America.
    Friedrich Nietzsche, from On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life
    Ernst Renan, from What is a Nation?
    Sigmund Freud, from Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics and Moses and Monotheism
    Karl Marx, from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
    Karl Mannheim, from The Sociological Problem of Generations
    Walter Benjamin, from The Storyteller and Theses on the Philosophy of History
    Ernst Gombrich, from Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography
    Theodor Adorno, from Valéry Proust Museum and In Memory of Eichendorff
    Lev Vygotsky, from Mind in Society
    Frederic Bartlett, from Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology
    Carl Becker, from Everyman his own Historian
    George Herbert Mead, from The Nature of the Past
    Charles Horton Cooley, from Social Process
    Emile Durkheim, from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
    Maurice Halbwachs, from The Collective Memory
    Marc Bloch, from Memoire Collective, Tradition et Coutume: A propos d'un Livre Recent [Collective Memory, Custom, and Tradition: About a Recent Book]
    Charles Blondel, from Revue Critique: M. Halbwachs Les Cadres Sociaux de la Mémoire [Critical Review of M. Halbwachs Les Cadres Sociaux de la Mémoire]
    Roger Bastide, from The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations.
    Lloyd Warner, from The Living and the Dead: A Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans
    E.E. Evans-Pritchard, from The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
    Claude Levi-Strauss, from The Savage Mind
    History, Memory and Identity
    Introduction to Part Two
    Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Truth and Method
    Edward Casey, from Remembering: A Phenomenological Study
    Peter Burke, from History as Social Memory
    Allan Megill, from History, Memory, Identity
    Alon Confino, from Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method
    Yosef Yerushalmi, from Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
    Jan Assmann, from Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism and Collective Memory and Cultural Identity
    Peter Berger, from Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Approach
    Eviatar Zerubavel, from Social Memories: Steps towards a Sociology of the Past
    Jeffrey K. Olick, from Collective Memory: The Two Cultures
    Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton, from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
    Anthony Smith, from The Ethnic Origins of Nations
    Yael Zerubavel, from Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition
    Barry Schwartz, from Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of American Memory
    Power, Politics, and Contestation
    Introduction to Part Three
    Michel Foucault, from Film in Popular Memory: An Interview with Michel Foucault
    Popular Memory Group, from Popular Memory: Theory, Politics, Method
    Raphael Samuel, from Theatres of Memory
    John Bodnar, from Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century
    Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, from The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life
    Eric Hobsbawm, from Introduction: Inventing Traditions
    Terence Ranger, from The Invention of Tradition Revisited: The Case of Colonial Africa
    Orlando Patterson, from Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
    Richard Sennett, from Disturbing Memories
    Michael Schudson, from The Past in the Present versus the Present in the Past
    Gladys Lang and Kurt Lang, from Recognition and Renown: The Survival of Artistic Reputation
    Lori Ducharme and Gary Alan Fine, from The Construction of Nonpersonhood and Demonization: Commemorating the 'Traitorous' Reputation of Benedict Arnold
    Wulf Kansteiner, from Finding Meaning in Memory: A Methodological Critique of Collective Memory Studies
    Ron Eyerman, from The Past in the Present: Culture and the Transmission of Memory
    Jeffrey Alexander, from Toward a Cultural Theory of Trauma
    Media and Modes of Transmission
    Introduction to Part Four
    André Leroi-Gourhan, from Gesture and Speech
    Jack Goody, from Memory in Oral and Literate Traditions
    Merlin Donald, from Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition
    Aleida Assmann, from Canon and Archive
    Paul Connerton, from How Societies Remember
    Harald Welzer, Sabine Moller, Karoline Tschuggnall, Olaf Jensen, Torsten Koch, from Opa war kein Nazi: Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Familiengedächtnis [Grandpa Wasn't a Nazi: National Socialism in Family Memory]
    Marianne Hirsch, from The Generation of Postmemory
    John Thompson, from Tradition and Self in a Mediated World
    George Lipsitz, from Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture
    Barbie Zelizer, from Why Memory's Work on Journalism does not Reflect Journalism's Work on Memory
    Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz, from Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History
    Reinhardt Koselleck, from War Memorials: Identity Formations of the Survivors
    James Young, from At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art
    Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, From Commemorating a Difficult Past: Yitzhak Rabin's Memorials
    M. Christine Boyer, from The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments
    Dani?le Hervieu-Léger, from Religion as a Chain of Memory
    Harald Weinrich, from Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting
    Robin Wagner-Pacifici, from Memories in the Making: The Shapes of Things that Went
    Memory, Justice, and the Contemporary Epoch
    Introduction to Part Five
    Edward Shils, from Tradition
    Ian Hacking, from Memory Sciences, Memory Politics
    Patrick Hutton, from History as Art of Memory
    Anthony Giddens, from Living in a Post-Traditional Society
    David Gross, from Lost Time: On Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture
    Jay Winter, from Remembering War: The Great War between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century
    Andreas Huyssen, from Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia
    Pierre Nora, from Reasons for the Current Upsurge in Memory
    Charles Maier, from A Surfeit of Memory? Reflections on History, Melancholy and Denial
    Fred Davis, from Yearning for Yesterday: A Sociology of Nostalgia
    Svetlana Boym, from Nostalgia and Its Discontents
    Michel-Rolph Trouillot, from Abortive Rituals: Historical Apologies in the Global Era
    Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider, from Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory

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