Social memory
By: James Fentress and Chris Wickham.
Contributors: Wickham, Chris, 1950-
Series: New perspectives on the past; New perspectives on the past (Basil Blackwell Publisher)
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Memory -- Social aspects.
Description: The perspective, the philosophy and the psychology of remembering and the ways in which events are narrated are used to help work out how remembering and talking define societies in circumstances as diverse as medieval France and Iceland and contemporary Brazil and South Wales.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-[222]) and index.