On collective memory / Maurice Halbwachs ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Lewis A. Coser.

Main entry:

Halbwachs, Maurice, 1877-1945, author

Title & Author:

On collective memory / Maurice Halbwachs ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Lewis A. Coser.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
©1992

Description:

ix, 244 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

The Heritage of sociology

Notes:
Translated from Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire and from La topographie légendaire des évangiles en terre sainte.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The social frameworks of memory -- The legendary topography of the gospels in the Holy Land.
Translated from: Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire and from La topographie légendaire des évangiles en terre sainte.

Summary:

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? This volume, the first comprehensive English language translation of Maurice Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge.

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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226115941 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226115948 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226115968 (paper)
9780226115962 (paper)

Subject:

Halbwachs, Maurice, 1877-1945.
Memory Social aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Sociologie de la connaissance.
sociology of knowledge.
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Religionssoziologie
Sozialspiel
Christentum
Bürgertum
Collectief geheugen.
Sociologische aspecten.
Collective memory.
Knowledge Sociology

Added entries:

Coser, Lewis A., 1913-2003, editor, writer of introduction
Heritage of sociology.

Maurice Halbwachs on collective memory

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110818
Call No.: ID BF378.S65.H35; ID:96-B1804
Status: Available

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