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Michael Hemenway

Moses the Egyptian: the memory of ... - Google Books - 0 views

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    Assmann is an important figure in cultural memory studies. This book describes his idea of mnemohistory.
Michael Hemenway

Cultural memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

  • Crucial in understanding cultural memory as a phenomenon is the distinction between memory and history. This distinction was put forward by Pierre Nora, who pinpointed a niche in-between history and memory. Simply put, memories are the events that actually happened, while histories are subjective representations of what historians believe is crucial to remember. This dichotomy, it should be noted, emerged at a particular moment in history: it implies that there used to be a time when memories could exist as such — without being representational.
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      This is am important discussion. Though I may not agree with Nora here, this is a common depiction of the relationship between history and memory, with memory being the raw material for histories.
  • Either in visualized or abstracted form, one of the largest complications of memorializing our past is the inevitable fact that it is absent. Every memory we try to reproduce becomes – as Terdiman states – a 'present past'. It is this impractical desire for recalling what is gone forever that brings to surface a feeling of nostalgia, noticeable in many aspects of daily life but most specifically in cultural products.
  • German Egyptologists Jan Assmann in his book "Das kulturelle Gedächtnis",
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    Nice, generic introduction to the field of cultural memory studies. Nothing particularly related to Bible, except the mentions of Jan Assmann, who writes extensively on history, memory and the bible (Moses the Egyptian).
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    Unlike most other theory and method, it would seem that this one has been pioneered by scholars in the field (Bible and ancient text-study)
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