Collective memory and cultural identity pdf

Kruger explored the role of collective memory in festivals and public ceremonies to maintain cultural identity (Kruger, 2014). Pennebaker et al. explored the creation, maintenance, and distortion of the collective memory of social events from a psychosocial perspective (Pennebaker et al., 1997). Guangzhou Winter Jasmine Flower Market Cultural trauma and collective identity / Jeffrey C. Alexander . . . [et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN -520-23594- (alk. paper). —ISBN -520-23595-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Social problems —Psychological aspects. 2. Psychic trauma —Social aspects. 3. Crises — Psychological aspects. I. Alexander, Jeffrey C. HN13 .C845 2004 361.1—dc21 2003012762 welfare-enhancing manipulation of collective memory is reduced, moreover, in culturally heterogeneous societies. My findings are consistent with the empirical evidence on the evolution of collective memory in a variety of countries. JEL classification numbers: D82, D83, Z13. Keywords: memory, identity, cultural transmission, externalities, his- scholars continue to challenge the nation of collective or cultural memory, c1ai.ming, for example, that since we have well-established concepts like "myth," "tradition," and "individual memory," there is no need for a . 2 . Astrid . Erll . further, and often misleading, addition to the existing repertoire (cf. Gedi and Elam). What these criticisms overlook, of course, is that it is exacdy the "Collective memory" has attracted the attention and discussion of scholars internationally across academic disciplines over the past 40−50 years in particular. It and "collective identity" have become important issues within Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies; the role collective memory plays in shaping collective identity links the two organically. Primordialists assert that collective memory and identity are formed based on the primordial ties of blood, kinship, language, and common history. In other words, memory is passed intergenerationally. As Gerrit W. Gong writes, "Transferring from generation to generation, history and memory issues tell grandparents and grandchildren who they Collective Memory and Cultural Identity Jan Assmann; John Czaplicka New German Critique, No. 65, Cultural History/Cultural Studies. (Spring - Summer, 1995), pp. Cultural/collective memory is the act of recalling events that are related with objects, places and encountered by people in a social framework or between groups that experience these events . Collective memory is reckoned to be a repository of culture, and sometimes this view leads to the term 'cultural memory' being used interchangeably . Cultural memory (or collective memory) was Created Date: 12/25/2006 10:28:40 PM collective consciousness ready for recall or hidden in a collective unconscious buried under the ruins of forgetting which could be retrieved only by systematic work if at all. Cultural memory is rather embodied in objectivations which store meanings in a concentrated manner, meanings shared by a group of people who take them for granted. These can be texts, such as sacred scrolls, historical Collective memory has been a major subject of interest in both cultural and historical geography since the 1990s. Much of this work has been guided by three major strands of thinking: feminist theory, Gramscian-Marxist approaches, and postcolonial thought. M