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Memory in Oral Traditions
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: David C. Rubin
Categories: Ballads
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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"Dr. Rubin has brought cognitive psychology into a wholly unprecedented dialogue with studies in oral tradition. The result is a truly new perspective on memory
The Edge of Memory
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Patrick Nunn
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-23 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future? In today's society it is the written word that holds
The Memory Code
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Lynne Kelly
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-07 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, iden
Memory and Manuscript
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Birger Gerhardsson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Here in one volume are two of Birger Gerhardsson's much-debated works on the transmission of tradition in Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. In Memory and
Memory
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors: Patricia Fara
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-09-03 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This engaging volume for the general reader explores how individuals and societies remember, forget and commemorate events of the past. The collection of eight