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Cultural memory and early civilization : writing, remembrance, and political imagination /
"Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity, and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human memory exists and is communicated in two ways, namely inter-human interaction and in external syst...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.