Re: [xmca] social memory (thank you in advance)

I don't think you should underestimate the Middleton and Edwards. Their
discussions on Bartlett and Halbwachs are well worth the effort.

deb

On 12/30/07, Paul Dillon <phd_crit_think@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Ed,
>
> That's a helluva question! Several answers presented themselves to
> me when I read it (like the cars I see passing on the street when I leave
> my crib). Imitiation? (of what and why?) Habit? (where'd ya pick it
> up?) So you can see that, just like the people I see in the cars on the
> street, of whomI have no idea where there going or why. Jeez, now I've got
> another itch to scratch and every time I begin to write "thanks" before
> hand, I'm sure I'll think of you. I might even ask other people about it!!!
>
> But thanks for the refs after the fact, too.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> Ed Wall <ewall@umich.edu> wrote:
> Paul
>
> >From my perspective here are a few which are more or less
> essential (the Middleton one I'm a bit less sure about, but it might
> be interesting and helpful). The first two, in a sense, do not
> address where he may be headed. However, they address the phenomenon
> - a good starting point.
>
> Bartlett, Fredrick C. "Remembering." Cambridge: Cambridge University
> Press, 1932/1995.
>
> Casey, Edward S. "Remembering: a Phenomenological Study."
> Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2000.
>
> David Moddleton and Derek Edwards (eds). Collective Remembering.
> Thousand Oaks: Sage 190
>
> A general question for you: Why do people write "Thank you in advance."?
>
> Ed Wall
>
> >A general question for any bibliographic help .
> >
> > I am advising a student preparing his bachillerato (5 year
> >program) thesis. He wants to study how memories of significant
> >events (in this case events during the period of political violence
> >here during the 80s) are transmitted between the generation that
> >experienced them and the generation following. He also would like
> >to explore how this affects "identity" but I have suggested that he
> >simply focus on the transmission of the memories of events that
> >affected the entire group of community members with whom he's
> >working. I suspect that questions of identity (us/them) will emerge
> >in the process of exploring this process.
> >
> > So, could anyone help me with some biblio references in this direction?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
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Deborah Downing Wilson
Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition
University of California San Diego
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