Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination by Jan Assmann

Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination

Jan Assmann

332 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced

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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, name...

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