Cultural Memory And Identity In Ancient Societies
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Cultural Memory and Identity in Ancient Societies
How did ancient societies remember and commemorate the past? How was cultural identity, both individual and collective, formed and articulated?
Cultural Memory and Identity in Ancient Societies
How did ancient societies remember and commemorate the past? And how was cultural identity, both individual and collective, formed and articulated? In recent years memory has become a central concept in historical studies, following the definition of the term 'Cultural Memory' by the Egyptologist Jan Assmann in 1994. Thinking about memory, as both an individual and a social phenomenon, has led to a new way of conceptualizing history and has drawn historians into debate with scholars in other disciplines such as literary studies, cultural theory and philosophy. The aim of this volume is to explore memory and identity in ancient societies.
Cultural Memory and Early Civilization
Author: Jan Assmann
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2011-12-05
Pt. 1. The theoretical basis -- Memory culture -- Written culture -- Cultural identity and political imagination -- pt. 2. Case studies -- Egypt -- Israel and the invention of religion -- The birth of history from the spirit of the law -- Greece and disciplined thinking -- Cultural memory : a summary.