Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of MemoryBloomsbury Academic, 28 de fev. de 2000 - 192 páginas According to Bertman, just as an individual needs memories to maintain a sense of personal identity, so does a nation need them in order to survive. Like Alzheimer victims, however, today's Americans are rapidly losing a consciousness of history, and with it, a sense of national identity and direction. |
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... memories are also categorized by their duration . As the term suggests , short - term memories are temporary , while long - term memories are more lasting . A subcategory of short - term memory is work- ing memory , the " Post - it " of ...
America's Future and the Crisis of Memory Stephen Bertman. CHAPTER 3 MEMORY AND CIVILIZATION Like a person , a culture also has a memory , but cultural memory is different from personal memory in two ways . Instead of representing the ...
America's Future and the Crisis of Memory Stephen Bertman. 5. On aging and memory see especially Baddeley , Your Memory , chap . 13 , and Schacter , Searching for Memory , chap . 10. On the strength of older minds and their possible ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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