Open AccessMeditations on memory
Author(s) -
Heather Home
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
encounters in theory and history of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2560-8371
DOI - 10.24908/eoe-ese-rse.v3i0.1723
Subject(s) - archivist , collective memory , field (mathematics) , state (computer science) , social memory , population , order (exchange) , sociology , cognitive science , computer science , political science , psychology , law , business , library science , demography , mathematics , finance , algorithm , pure mathematics
Archives have often been thought of as the warehouses of collective or societal memory. This article explores the role of memory, in both its physical and metaphysical state, in the field of archival study. ?e functionality of individual human memory is investigated in order to understand how it operates and becomes co-opted into an institutional archival setting. Since it is the archivist’s goal to reflect and collect societal memory through the documentary heritage of the populace, it is therefore important for archivists to be aware of the way in which memory functions within the individuals who make up that population.