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Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity
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Artikel-Nr:
9780814327531
Veröffentl:
2004
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.09.2004
Seiten:
334
Autor:
Dan Ben-Amos
Gewicht:
485 g
Format:
229x152x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dan Ben-Amos is a professor of folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of MIcha Joseph Bin Gorion's Mimekor Yisrael: Classical Jewish Folktales.
How do we remember persons, objects, events? Memory seems so personal, but, at the same time, it is shaped by collective experience and public representations. Newspapers, television, and even celebrations and festivities mark for us not only who we are, but also who we were and how we lived.Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity brings together scholars of folklore, literature, history, and communication to explore the dynamics of cultural memory in a variety of contexts. The authors show how memory is shaped and how it operates in uniting society and creating images that attain the value of truth even if they deviate from fact. They point to the relationship between this memory and our notion of "culture."