title: Collective Memory, A Fusion of cognitive Mechanisms and cultural Processes.
abstract: The paper assumes a theoretical-empirical interface exists between top-down (structural concepts) and bottom-up (cognitive mechanisms and socio-cultural interactions) approaches to collective memory. Both deal with collaborative group accounts, material culture such as artefacts and representational re-descriptive technologies. Anthropology has shown how communal life was based on story telling, rituals, artefacts, routine practices constitutive of daily life representational re-descriptions and the reproduction of implicit and explicit emotional normative belief systems embedded in kinship and social network relations.
authors: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Laurel Heights, The Institute for Health and Aging, Suite 340, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA, 94118, USA. aaron.cicourel@ucsf.edu.
authors: Aaron V
authors: AV
authors: Cicourel
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003469:Culture; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D012919:Social Behavior; D012944:Social Support
keywords: cognition; collective memory; demography; health care delivery