Between Chaos and Diversity: Is Social Memory Studies a Field?

Is (or are) memory studies, social or otherwise, a field? If so, does anything hold it together beyond the mere use of the phrase "collective memory"? Memory studies is simultaneously still in its charismatic phase, though it no longer has a right to be, as well as highly resistant to efforts to escape from it, though it clearly needs to do so. To be a field, it needs a memory of its own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Accession Number: 41041946; Olick, Jeffrey 1; Email Address: jko3k@virginia.edu; Affiliations: 1 : Sociology Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904 USA; Source Info: 2009, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p249; Thesaurus Term: COLLECTIVE memory; Thesaurus Term: MEMORY; Thesaurus Term: PSYCHOLOGY; Thesaurus Term: SOCIAL sciences; Subject Term: RESEARCH; Subject Term: SOCIAL sciences & psychology; Subject Term: DIVERSITY in education; Author-Supplied Keyword: Canon; Author-Supplied Keyword: Collective memory; Author-Supplied Keyword: Field; Author-Supplied Keyword: Social memory studies; Number of Pages: 4p. Document Type: Article'
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