All Stories

Why do some stories last 3,000 years while family memories fade in 80? Jan Assmann claimed that the answer lied in the difference between communicative and cultural memory.

Herodotus described his role as a historian as a twofold struggle against the “lapse of time” and “forgetting”.

Laurajane Smith has argued that heritage is not something material as we commonly think, but rather a discourse that selects what is worth preserving. She called this the Authorized Heritage Discourse (ADH).

Ethnosymbolism is an approach to the study of nationalism, grounded in the work of Anthony D. Smith, that emphasizes the importance of symbols, myths, and memories.

The term 'collective memory' was coined by the French philosopher Maurice Halbwachs to describe the process by which groups of people remember things and construct their group identities.