From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products

'158-9 three principles\n1. no such thing as \"the collective memory of an entire society\" always complexity, multiplicity etc.\n2. Regarding opposition between \"traditionalist\" and \"presentist\" models:\n\n{159} Neither of these views, however, is a particularly insightful way to understand the complexities of remembering, which is always a fluid negotiation between the desires of the present and the legacies of the past. What parts past and present, history and memory, respectively play in this negotiation - and how they are related - is as much an empirical question as it is a theoretical one.\n\n3. \"we must remember that memory is a process and not a thing, a faculty rather than a place.\"'
'158 - products & practices\n\ncollective memory really refers to a wide variety of mnemonic products and practices, often quite different from one another. The former (products) include stories, rituals, books, statues, presentations, speeches, images, pictures, records, historical studies, surveys, etc.; the latter (practices) include reminiscence, recall, representation, commemoration, celebration, regret, renunciation, disavowal, denial, rationalization, excuse, acknowledgment, and many others.\n'