Cultural Memory - Jan Assmann Flashcards
What is Collective Knowledge?
Belonging to culture/society
Collective Knowledge: inherited vs. acquired?
acquired; result of socialization and customs
What is Cultural Memory?
collective concept for all knowledge, directs behaviour and experience; objectivized culture
How is Cultural Memory perserved?
through generations in repeated societal practice, initiation
Cultural Memory distanced….
from everyday
What is a fixed point (Assmann)?
fateful event of the past, actual date
How is a fixed point maintained?
cultural formation and institutional communication
What are the two main purposes of Cultural Memory?
- ) modelling present and future
2. ) identificatory determination
What does determine the self-image ofa society?
the body of reusable texts, images, and rituals specific to each society
What is the structure of knowledge responsible for?
concretion of identity
What does a group base its consciousness on?
What is drawn from it?
unity and specifity
normative and formative impulses
Why is cultural heritage responsible for and what is drawn from it?
it makes the society to itself and to others, which past evident and values which tells much about constitution and tendencies of society
What are the main characteristics of Cultural Memory? (6)
- concretion of identity
- capacity to reconstruct
- formation
- organization
- obligation (normative, formative)
- reflexitivity (practice-reflexive, self-reflexive, reflexive of its own image)
