Wang Qi
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, USA.
Memory. 2008 Apr;16(3):305-17. doi: 10.1080/09658210701801467.
The study of collective memory needs to take into consideration the cultural context in which the remembering takes place. In this article, I analyse how functional variations of collective memory across cultures may influence the processes, practices, and outcomes of collective remembering. I then discuss the transitory nature of culture in affecting collective memory across an individual's lifespan as well as across time and generations. I borrow recent findings from cross-cultural research on autobiographical memory to illustrate the cultural effects, and propose a new approach to studying collective memory in which the individual, the collective, and the culture are treated as a single unit of analysis.
对集体记忆的研究需要考虑记忆发生的文化背景。在本文中，我分析了跨文化集体记忆的功能差异如何可能影响集体记忆的过程、实践和结果。然后，我讨论了文化在影响个体一生中以及跨时间和代际的集体记忆方面的短暂性。我借鉴了近期关于自传体记忆的跨文化研究结果来说明文化影响，并提出一种研究集体记忆的新方法，即将个体、集体和文化视为一个单一的分析单元。
