| Abstract | Following (a) an introductory statement on the extremely uneven treatment of memory in the social sciences, this article addresses (b) the pragmatizing foundations of human memory and (c) the highly consequential role that ethnographers have to assume if social scientists are to achieve more adequate and authentic conceptualizations of memory as a social process. Subsequent attention is given to (d) memory as a socially accomplished realm of activity, (e) memories as instances of collective ventures, (f) remembering as a generic social process, and (g) the conceptual challenges that ethnographers face if they are to make more substantive contributions to academic memory in the human sciences.
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