Cultural Memory and Early Civilization

Now available to an English-speaking audience this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory identity and culture. It investigates how cultures remember arguing that human memory exists and is communicated in two ways namely inter-human interaction and in external systems of notation such as writing which can span generations. Dr. Assmann defines two theoretical concepts of cultural memory differentiating between the long-term memory of societies which can span up to 3000 yea...See More