Fentress.J. & Whickam.C., (1992) Social Memory: New Perspectives on the Past. Oxford: Blackwell publishers.
Chapter 1 page 7
When we remember, we represent ourselves to ourselves and to those around us. To the extent that our ‘nature; - that which we truly are – can be revealed in articulation.
scary thoughtPage 8
Memory has retreated for us more and more into the personal. It is a source of private, not social, knowledge.
no one knows what your thinking.Page 17 &18
A ‘map’ in the sense that we are using the term, is a visual concept, a constructed or projected image, referring to and bearing information about something outside itself. It is a concept that supports the ‘memory of things’.
A mnemonic map is a visual image ... the visual expression of knowledge is more complex than the semantic.........the map would be a conceptualised image
this is the part of mapping that I find interesting.Page 19
We are so accustomed to using words to support our ‘memory of things’ that we do not always notice that they are there. We fail to remember that we are using a medium at all.
I would not have thought of words as a medium,Page 88
Memories tend to be remembered in the first place because of their power to legitimize the present, ..... Memories about the past can themselves change across time, but even when they do not, they will certainly be selected out of the potentially infinite set of possible memories.
selective memory.Page 210
It is we who are remembering, and it is to us that the knowledge, emotions, and images ultimately refer.
personal memories.We can neither know nor experience our memories unless we can first ‘think’them; and the moment we ‘think’ our memories, recalling and articulating them, they are no longer object; they become part of us.
Only by making memories part of us, first, can we share them with others.
Memory has an immense social role. It tells us who we are.
these images are untouched by the hand of any painter; these stories cannot bear a copyright.
story telling, recounting the past to the younger generation,Page 202
Memories die, but only to be replaced by other memories.
I like thi.
I found the chapter on womens memory quite interesting, I have been thinking about the way it says that women stop remembering when they get married. I dont agree with this, I think that they stop putting as much importance on what goes on in the outside world and more importantce on what goes on in there imidiate family. As it states in the book most of the memories of women are of the home and family, maybe because the home and family are the largest part of her world, whereas for a man the largest part of his world is the outside working environment. All though this may change as most women now work outside of the home too.
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