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Structures of remembering: notes from Time Maps, 2

Zerubavel, Eviatar. Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Conventional sociomnemonic structures: Progress: [T]he most common manifestation of this progressionist historical scenario is the highly schematic backward-to-advanced evolutionist narrative… Though

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Notes on how we remember, 1: memory as collective process

My friend and adviser, historian Dr Mansour Bonakdarian, recommended this book to me early in our conversation about this project a few months ago: Zerubavel, Eviatar. Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. Chicago: University of

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