In Handbook of Culture and Memory, an interdisciplinary group of contributors provide new models of the complex interrelationships between people's memory and their social relationships, group stories and history, monuments, rituals and material artifacts.

Brady Wagoner is Professor of Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark. He was the co-creator of the F.C. Bartlett Internet Archive and is associate editor for the journals Culture & Psychology and Peace & Conflict. He received the 'early career award' from Division 26 of the American Psychological Association: the Society for the History of Psychology.

• Part I. Concept and History of Memory


• Chapter 1: The Evolutionary Origins of Human Cultural Memory


• Merlin Donald


• Chapter 2: From Memory as Archive to Remembering as Conversation


• Jens Brockmeier


• Chapter 3: Discerning the History Inscribed Within: Significant Sites of the Narrative Unconscious


• Mark Freeman


• Part II. Cultural Contexts of Remembering


• Chapter 4: The Landscape of Family Memory


• Bradd Shore and Sara Kauko


• Chapter 5: Materiality of Memory: The Case of the Remembrance Poppy


• Kyoko Murakami


• Chapter 6: Approaches to Testimony: Two Current Views and Beyond


• Kotaro Takagi and Naohisa Mori


• Chapter 7: Rethinking Function, Self and Culture, in 'Difficult' Autobiographical Memories


• Steve D. Brown and Paula Reavey


• Part III. Memory through the Life Course


• Chapter 8: The Cultural Construction of Memory in Early Childhood


• Katherine Nelson


• Chapter 9: Memory in Life Transitions


• Constance de Saint Laurent and Tania Zittoun


• Chapter 10: Memory in Old Age: A Life-span Perspective


• Dieter Ferring


• Part IV. Memory, History and Identity


• Chapter 11: National Memory and Where to Find It


• James V. Wertsch


• Chapter 12: History, Collective Memories or National Memories? How the Representation of the Past is Framed by Master Narratives


• Mario Carretero and Floor van Alphen


• Chapter 13: Media and the Dynamics of Memory: From Cultural Paradigms to Transcultural Mediation


• Astrid Erll