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On Collective Memory
How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, ...more
Paperback, 254 pages
Published
September 1st 1992
by University of Chicago Press
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This is a really insightful book written on group and individual memory. The writer argues that memory is always a group and individual process. Whereas history is based on making differences and distinctions (between decades, moments), Halbwachs argues that history, memory, and times is really a chord of threads that intertwine and intersect. I especially appreciated his observations about most religions. Religions are essentially collective memories.
Yes, I am reading this again. People from Collective Memory class, please don't give me a hard time about it. :)
Woohoo! Finished re-reading this. Definitely cannon and necessary to read, but annoying that the translation does not include everything from the original works. Sometimes I think it would have been better to learn French than Spanish for academic work.
Woohoo! Finished re-reading this. Definitely cannon and necessary to read, but annoying that the translation does not include everything from the original works. Sometimes I think it would have been better to learn French than Spanish for academic work.
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Good book on memory, history, but the stress is laid on collective groups, collective memory, the individual being defined only within groups.
There are things to which I agree and things to which I STRONGLY disagree.
Anyway the book helped me for my memory studies research project.
There are things to which I agree and things to which I STRONGLY disagree.
Anyway the book helped me for my memory studies research project.
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