How does collective memory create a sense of the collective?

Memory in Mind and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 194-218

  Lambert, Alan J ^a   Scherer, Laura Nesse ^a   Rogers, Chad ^a   Jacoby, Larry ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77954780239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511626999.011     Document Type: Chapter

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