Memory Cultures

Memory Cultures is an interdisciplinary collection that takes a journey through in order to contextualize this current memory boom. International contributors focus on memories outside -in the many fields within which understandings of have been produced. The collection focuses less on as an object whose inner workings are to be studied, and more on as a concept, tracing genealogies of our contemporary Western understandings of through studies of the early modern arts of memory. The book also discusses nineteenth-century evolutionary museums, and the modernist explorations of artists and writers.