Profoundly challenging the traditional view of memory as the product and property of individual minds, Collective Remembering is concerned with remembering and

This book draws on numerous fields to provide a comprehensive review of collective memory.

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

There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important sourc

An argument that individuals and collectives form memories by analogous processes and a case study of collective retrograde amnesia. We form individual memories