Assmann

Question 1

communicative memory

Answer 1

every-day memory, it is disorganized and informal, reciprocal, takes place between an individual and the groups they belong to, unfixed and unstable, short life span (80-100 years).
examples: gossip, joke

Question 2

cultural memory

Answer 2

memory that is fixed, retrieve-able in the future for transformation, criticism, or the like (the group’s capacity to reconstruct). helps maintain consistent identity across generations.
relationship with cultural memory (not memory itself) is what differs.

Question 3

concretion of identity

Answer 3

the consolidation of a group’s identity in relation to cultural memory. There is a “need for identity.” cultural memory is there for the group to stabilize and reproduce its identity

Question 4

mode of potentiality

Answer 4

a mode of cultural memory in which its “accumulated texts, images, and rules of conduct act as a total horizon”

Question 5

mode of actuality

Answer 5

a mode of cultural memory “whereby each contemporary context puts the objectivized meaning into its own perspective, giving it its own relevance”

Question 6

formation of cultural memory

Answer 6

cultural memory’s crystallization into formats such as texts, images, rites, language