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

Deb

     My hesitation was not over the worth, but my relative ignorance
about the book as a whole. It has been on my to do list for awhile. I
will move it up nearer the top (unfortunately along with everything
else).

Ed

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