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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Main Author: Jan Assmann
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Civilization, Ancient.
Memory
Collective memory
Group identity
Interpersonal communication
Written communication
Politics and culture
History
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