Handbook of Culture and Memory

Brady Wagoner is Professor of Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark. He was the co-creator of the F.C. Bartlett Internet Archive and is associate editor for the journals Culture & Psychology and Peace & Conflict. He received the 'early career award' from Division 26 of the American Psychological Association: the Society for the History of Psychology.

• Part I. Concept and History of Memory Chapter 1: The Evolutionary Origins of Human Cultural MemoryMerlin Donald Chapter 2: From Memory as Archive to Remembering as ConversationJens Brockmeier Chapter 3: Discerning the History Inscribed Within: Significant Sites of the Narrative Unconscious Mark Freeman Part II. Cultural Contexts of Remembering Chapter 4: The Landscape of Family MemoryBradd Shore and Sara Kauko Chapter 5: Materiality of Memory: The Case of the Remembrance PoppyKyoko Murakami Chapter 6: Approaches to Testimony: Two Current Views and BeyondKotaro Takagi and Naohisa Mori Chapter 7: Rethinking Function, Self and Culture, in 'Difficult' Autobiographical Memories Steve D. Brown and Paula Reavey Part III. Memory through the Life Course Chapter 8: The Cultural Construction of Memory in Early ChildhoodKatherine Nelson Chapter 9: Memory in Life TransitionsConstance de Saint Laurent and Tania Zittoun Chapter 10: Memory in Old Age: A Life-span PerspectiveDieter Ferring Part IV. Memory, History and IdentityChapter 11: National Memory and Where to Find ItJames V. Wertsch Chapter 12: History, Collective Memories or National Memories? How the Representation of the Past is Framed by Master NarrativesMario Carretero and Floor van Alphen Chapter 13: Media and the Dynamics of Memory: From Cultural Paradigms to Transcultural MediationAstrid Erll

These expansive essays offer both richly detailed surveys of cutting edge research and productive new directions. Between biology and media theory, between psychology and history, this is the book to read on memory and culture."