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Culture and Memory 1
Author(s) -
COLE MICHAEL,
GAY JOHN
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1972.74.5.02a00030
Subject(s) - mnemonic , situational ethics , relation (database) , cognition , psychology , cognitive psychology , order (exchange) , cognitive science , social psychology , sociology , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , finance , database , neuroscience , economics
The problem of specifying the ways in which culture influences cognitive processes is discussed using the relation between culture and memory as a special case. Beginning with scattered suggestions from the anthropological and psychological literature, a research strategy combining ethnolinguistic and experimental psychological techniques is described. Mnemonic performance is shown to depend upon a host of situational (cultural) factors which must be systematically explored in order to determine culture‐memory relations.