Memory in the Wild (hc)

Venturing out of the laboratory into the wild of natural settings, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially extended and socially distributed process, embedded within culture and history. This book explores the complex relations between practices of remembering and the settings in which they are enacted. It advances a novel set of concepts developed from ecological, cognitive, cultural and narrative currents in psychology and further afield to analyze (1) trajectories of autobiographical remembering, (2) the relation between individual and collective memory, (3) memory and cultural transmission, as well as (4) various methodological techniques to investigate memory in the wild.

Summary

This book views memory as a process embedded in culture and history, extending beyond the individual. It examines autobiographical memory, the relationship between individual and collective memory, cultural transmission, and methods for studying memory in natural settings.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ignacio Brescó de Luna (Editor), Ignacio Bresco de Luna (Editor), Brady Wagoner (Editor), Sophie Zadeh (Editor)
• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781648020711
• ISBN: 978-1-64802-071-1
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 643 g
• Series: Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology; Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psyc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works