The Collective Memory Reader

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: JEFFREY K. OLICK, VERED VINITZKY-SEROUSSI, AND DANIEL LEVY; INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE; EDMUND BURKE, FROM REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE; ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, FROM DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA; FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, FROM ON THE USES AND DISADVANTAGES OF HISTORY FOR LIFE; ERNST RENAN, FROM WHAT IS A NATION?; SIGMUND FREUD, FROM TOTEM AND TABOO: RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN THE PSYCHIC LIVES OF SAVAGES AND NEUROTICS AND MOSES AND MONOTHEISM; KARL MARX, FROM THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE OF LOUIS BONAPARTE; KARL MANNHEIM, FROM THE SOCIOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF GENERATIONS; WALTER BENJAMIN, FROM THE STORYTELLER AND THESES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY; ERNST GOMBRICH, FROM ABY WARBURG: AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY; THEODOR ADORNO, FROM VALERY PROUST MUSEUM AND IN MEMORY OF EICHENDORFF; LEV VYGOTSKY, FROM MIND IN SOCIETY; FREDERIC BARTLETT, FROM REMEMBERING: A STUDY IN EXPERIMENTAL AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; CARL BECKER, FROM EVERYMAN HIS OWN HISTORIAN; GEORGE HERBERT MEAD, FROM THE NATURE OF THE PAST; CHARLES HORTON COOLEY, FROM SOCIAL PROCESS; EMILE DURKHEIM, FROM THE ELEMENTARY FORMS OF RELIGIOUS LIFE; MAURICE HALBWACHS, FROM THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY; MARC BLOCH, FROM MEMOIRE COLLECTIVE, TRADITION ET COUTUME: A PROPOS D'UN LIVRE RECENT [COLLECTIVE MEMORY, CUSTOM, AND TRADITION: ABOUT A RECENT BOOK]; CHARLES BLONDEL, FROM REVUE CRITIQUE: M. HALBWACHS LES CADRES SOCIAUX DE LA MEMOIRE [CRITICAL REVIEW OF M. HALBWACHS LES CADRES SOCIAUX DE LA MEMOIRE]; ROGER BASTIDE, FROM THE AFRICAN RELIGIONS OF BRAZIL: TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF THE INTERPENETRATION OF CIVILIZATIONS; LLOYD WARNER, FROM THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: A STUDY OF THE SYMBOLIC LIFE OF AMERICANS; E.E. EVANS-PRITCHARD, FROM THE NUER: A DESCRIPTION OF THE MODES OF LIVELIHOOD AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF A NILOTIC PEOPLE; CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, FROM THE SAVAGE MIND; INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO; HANS-GEORG GADAMER, FROM TRUTH AND METHOD; EDWARD CASEY, FROM REMEMBERING: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY; PETER BURKE, FROM HISTORY AS SOCIAL MEMORY; ALLAN MEGILL, FROM HISTORY, MEMORY, IDENTITY; ALON CONFINO, FROM COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL HISTORY: PROBLEMS OF METHOD; YOSEF YERUSHALMI, FROM ZAKHOR: JEWISH HISTORY AND JEWISH MEMORY; JAN ASSMANN, FROM MOSES THE EGYPTIAN: THE MEMORY OF EGYPT IN WESTERN MONOTHEISM AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY; PETER BERGER, FROM INVITATION TO SOCIOLOGY: A HUMANISTIC APPROACH; EVIATAR ZERUBAVEL, FROM SOCIAL MEMORIES: STEPS TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF THE PAST; JEFFREY K. OLICK, FROM COLLECTIVE MEMORY: THE TWO CULTURES; ROBERT BELLAH, RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, STEVEN M. TIPTON, FROM HABITS OF THE HEART: INDIVIDUALISM AND COMMITMENT IN AMERICAN LIFE; ANTHONY SMITH, FROM THE ETHNIC ORIGINS OF NATIONS; YAEL ZERUBAVEL, FROM RECOVERED ROOTS: COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND THE MAKING OF ISRAELI NATIONAL TRADITION; BARRY SCHWARTZ, FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE FORGE OF AMERICAN MEMORY; INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE; MICHEL FOUCAULT, FROM FILM IN POPULAR MEMORY: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHEL FOUCAULT; POPULAR MEMORY GROUP, FROM POPULAR MEMORY: THEORY, POLITICS, METHOD; RAPHAEL SAMUEL, FROM THEATRES OF MEMORY; JOHN BODNAR, FROM REMAKING AMERICA: PUBLIC MEMORY, COMMEMORATION AND PATRIOTISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; ROY ROSENZWEIG AND DAVID THELEN, FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST: POPULAR USES OF HISTORY IN AMERICAN LIFE; ERIC HOBSBAWM, FROM INTRODUCTION: INVENTING TRADITIONS; TERENCE RANGER, FROM THE INVENTION OF TRADITION REVISITED: THE CASE OF COLONIAL AFRICA; ORLANDO PATTERSON, FROM SLAVERY AND SOCIAL DEATH: A COMPARATIVE STUDY; RICHARD SENNETT, FROM DISTURBING MEMORIES; MICHAEL SCHUDSON, FROM THE PAST IN THE PRESENT VERSUS THE PRESENT IN THE PAST; GLADYS LANG AND KURT LANG, FROM RECOGNITION AND RENOWN: THE SURVIVAL OF ARTISTIC REPUTATION; LORI DUCHARME AND GARY ALAN FINE, FROM THE CONSTRUCTION OF NONPERSONHOOD AND DEMONIZATION: COMMEMORATING THE 'TRAITOROUS' REPUTATION OF BENEDICT ARNOLD; WULF KANSTEINER, FROM FINDING MEANING IN MEMORY: A METHODOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY STUDIES; RON EYERMAN, FROM THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: CULTURE AND THE TRANSMISSION OF MEMORY; JEFFREY ALEXANDER, FROM TOWARD A CULTURAL THEORY OF TRAUMA; INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR; ANDRE LEROI-GOURHAN, FROM GESTURE AND SPEECH; JACK GOODY, FROM MEMORY IN ORAL AND LITERATE TRADITIONS; MERLIN DONALD, FROM ORIGINS OF THE MODERN MIND: THREE STAGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE AND COGNITION; ALEIDA ASSMANN, FROM CANON AND ARCHIVE; PAUL CONNERTON, FROM HOW SOCIETIES REMEMBER; HARALD WELZER, SABINE MOLLER, KAROLINE TSCHUGGNALL, OLAF JENSEN, TORSTEN KOCH, FROM OPA WAR KEIN NAZI: NATIONALSOZIALISMUS UND HOLOCAUST IM FAMILIENGEDACHTNIS [GRANDPA WASN'T A NAZI: NATIONAL SOCIALISM IN FAMILY MEMORY]; MARIANNE HIRSCH, FROM THE GENERATION OF POSTMEMORY; JOHN THOMPSON, FROM TRADITION AND SELF IN A MEDIATED WORLD; GEORGE LIPSITZ, FROM TIME PASSAGES: COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE; BARBIE ZELIZER, FROM WHY MEMORY'S WORK ON JOURNALISM DOES NOT REFLECT JOURNALISM'S WORK ON MEMORY; DANIEL DAYAN AND ELIHU KATZ, FROM MEDIA EVENTS: THE LIVE BROADCASTING OF HISTORY; REINHARDT KOSELLECK, FROM WAR MEMORIALS: IDENTITY FORMATIONS OF THE SURVIVORS; JAMES YOUNG, FROM AT MEMORY'S EDGE: AFTER-IMAGES OF THE HOLOCAUST IN CONTEMPORARY ART; VERED VINITZKY-SEROUSSI, FROM COMMEMORATING A DIFFICULT PAST: YITZHAK RABIN'S MEMORIALS; M. CHRISTINE BOYER, FROM THE CITY OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY: ITS HISTORICAL IMAGERY AND ARCHITECTURAL ENTERTAINMENTS; DANIELE HERVIEU-LEGER, FROM RELIGION AS A CHAIN OF MEMORY; HARALD WEINRICH, FROM LETHE: THE ART AND CRITIQUE OF FORGETTING; ROBIN WAGNER-PACIFICI, FROM MEMORIES IN THE MAKING: THE SHAPES OF THINGS THAT WENT; INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE; EDWARD SHILS, FROM TRADITION; IAN HACKING, FROM MEMORY SCIENCES, MEMORY POLITICS; PATRICK HUTTON, FROM HISTORY AS ART OF MEMORY; ANTHONY GIDDENS, FROM LIVING IN A POST-TRADITIONAL SOCIETY; DAVID GROSS, FROM LOST TIME: ON REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING IN LATE MODERN CULTURE; JAY WINTER, FROM REMEMBERING WAR: THE GREAT WAR BETWEEN MEMORY AND HISTORY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; ANDREAS HUYSSEN, FROM PRESENT PASTS: MEDIA, POLITICS, AMNESIA; PIERRE NORA, FROM REASONS FOR THE CURRENT UPSURGE IN MEMORY; CHARLES MAIER, FROM A SURFEIT OF MEMORY? REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY, MELANCHOLY AND DENIAL; FRED DAVIS, FROM YEARNING FOR YESTERDAY: A SOCIOLOGY OF NOSTALGIA; SVETLANA BOYM, FROM NOSTALGIA AND ITS DISCONTENTS; MICHEL-ROLPH TROUILLOT, FROM ABORTIVE RITUALS: HISTORICAL APOLOGIES IN THE GLOBAL ERA; DANIEL LEVY AND NATAN SZNAIDER, FROM MEMORY UNBOUND: THE HOLOCAUST AND THE FORMATION OF COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY