Work
Cultural Memory and Early Civilisation
Explore in the Atlas →Distinguishes communicative (everyday) from cultural (institutionalised, long-term) memory, often embodied in monumental sites.
Memory
Details
- Type
- Text
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- ObservationReason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- articulates Communicative vs Cultural Memory
Referenced by
- Jan Assmann authored
Sources
- Jan Assmann. Das kulturelle Gedächtnis (Cultural Memory and Early Civilization). C.H. Beck (English trans. Cambridge University Press, 2011), 1992.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Cultural Memory and Early Civilisation." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/cultural-memory-and-early-civilisation/. Accessed July 17, 2026.