Collective Memory: Why Culture Matters

The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 253-271

  Schwartz, Barry ^a,c   Fukuoka, Kazuya ^a   Takita Ishii, Sachiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Advisory Committee   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Culture matters; Multiculturalism; Postmodernism; Provincial truths

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889343942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996744.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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