Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: topographie légendaire des évangiles en terre sainte: Etude de mémoire collective (1941) (published together in English as On Collective Memory in 1992) we learn that it is through membership of a social group that people are able to acquire, to localise and to recall memories. Halbwachs’s theory of the social construction of memory demonstrates that ‘society tends to erase from its memory everything which could separate individuals ’ (1992: 182–183). It is in the interaction between the individual and society that individual memories are reshaped and reconstructed. Along these lines, Michael Jackson points out that it is in the process of personal memories becoming collectivised and historicised that ‘they cease to be properties of individual minds and enter into intersubjectivity. As such the line between immediate and interpreted experience effectively disappears ’ (1998: 140). Or, as Paul Connerton, in his reflection on Halbwachs’ theory, explains: What binds together recent memories is not the fact that they are contiguous in time but rather the fact that they form part of a whole
Source: ANU Press eBooks
Author: Jaap Timmer
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2771566713