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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Social memory"”.
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Hippocampal microcircuits for social memory specification
During social interactions, humans and social animals can distinguish not only familiar and novel conspecifics (social recognition) but also between multiple familiar individuals (social specification). Recent studies have implicated hippocampal sub-region dorsal CA2 (dCA2) in social recognition …
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Social Memory and Nineteenth-Century British Historical Fiction
This dissertation examines the representation of social memory in British historical fiction from 1810 to 1880. I argue that social memory is crucial to the analysis of historical fiction during this period because it affords us an opportunity to see how authors in the nineteenth century viewed the …
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“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: Social Memory and Contentious Politics in a Democracy
… with a convoluted political history and memory culture. With its cautionary tale of the Nazi movement turned regime, Germany provides an especially valuable context within which to study social memory’s relationship with contentious politics. Based on ten months of fieldwork in Dresden, …
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Engaging vestiges of negative social memory: from an order of segregation to linkage
… opportunities of spaces of negative social memory. The issue that the work focuses on specifically is the case of the former Non-White Main Line Concourse building, located on the flyover of the Cape Town Train Station precinct. The building has slowly deteriorated since the end of …
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The Imagined After: Re-Positioning Social Memory Through Twentieth-Century Post-Apocalyptic Literature and Film
… first proposed a collective approach to memory in the early twentieth century, but the vast majority of subsequent scholarship investigates memory’s social properties from a theoretical point of view. This project instead proposes that memory functions as a social phenomenon in …
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Memory, Identity, and the Role of Revival: Tracing Changes in Material Culture of the Ica Society on the Peruvian South Coast (c. 1000–1600 CE)
… unique insight into the relationship between social memory, identity negotiation, and cultural notions of time. Revivals are often discussed in the context of European and Euro-American cultures from the early Modern Period to the present, but few have explored patterns of revival in the …
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Dispossession, Realism and the History of Neoliberalism in Peru and Colombia (1964-2014)
… examine the relationship between aesthetic form, social memory, and the processes of dispossession and exploitation that have transformed Peru and Colombia over the past 60 years. While realist prose has often been unfavorably contrasted with modernism (widely considered an aesthetically superior …
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Land agents and estate management in King's County during the Great Famine, 1838 to 1853
… In particular the thesis highlights the agent's social background, training and expierence prior to commencing the agency of an estate. Through the use of numerous case studies the study examines how agents as a body dealt with the day to day management of an estate from the period beginning with …
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Socially inherited memory, gender and the public sphere in Poland
… continuity rather than disjuncture in terms of social and political relations. Yet such theories fail to explain the nature of and the reasons for this continuity in terms of gender relations in the public sphere. The thesis suggests that the clue to understanding the nature of the gendered …
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Neural Mechanisms Promoting Biased Social Memories in Intergenerational Childhood Abuse
… Because child abuse shapes and is shaped by social interactions, pinpointing effective intervention targets for disrupting these cycles requires the study of social processing mechanisms. This study investigates whether neural and cognitive biases in social processing – specifically, the …
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Talking to Strangers: The Use of Stories as Guides to Intercultural Encounters by the Archaic Greeks and the Hudson’s Bay Cree
… a world without writing, sharing and maintaining social memory through oral storytelling. Since both were enterprising, well-travelled peoples, they became involved in meetings with other groups of completely unfamiliar language and culture: strange others. To manage these intercultural …
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Patrimônio gestual da capoeira carioca
… of this work is the capoeira, seen under the Social Memory lens as a gesture heritage, built from the conjunction of the following substances: gesture, people and meanings. Understanding the capoeira practicing as the retainer of this heritage for intermediary of his body and his voice we try …
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A Spatial Analysis of Bounded Cemeteries at the Town Creek Site (AD 1150-1400) in the Southern Piedmont of North Carolina
… can continue to investigate the creation of social memory and identity of corporate kin groups as a method of understanding connections to economic and political control.
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Il cinema in missione. La pratica cinematografica dei missionari italiani lungo il XX secolo tra apostolato e antropologia
… rules of the Catholic Church, the political and social context and the audience’s expectations. Each chapter (1-4) analyses the phenomenon inside the context constituted by the Italian colonial experiences, the relationship between Catholic Church and images during the Evangelization, the history …
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Through the Heart of the City: Interstates and Black Geographies in Urban America
… Rock’s national reputation by purging the city's social memory and legacy of racial violence. Planning strategies elucidated the local, state, and federal confluence of power systems responsible for transforming urban spaces in Little Rock to the aims of white supremacy. This study illuminates the …
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Social cognitive impairments Arc gene implication and ketamine as a potential treatment [Deficits socio-cognitivi Coinvolgimento del gene Arc e ketamina come potenziale trattamento]
Le interazioni sociali rivestono un'importanza fondamentale nella vita di ogni essere vivente. Queste interazioni sono regolamentate da una sofisticata rete di processi cognitivi che coinvolgono specifiche aree cerebrali conosciute come il cervello sociale. Una componente cruciale dell'interazione …
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Walking and talking : topographies of memory in Kingston-upon-Hull
… explores the relationships between different memory narratives within the unglamorous, everyday spaces of the city, drawing upon ideas of memory as a fluid and dynamic process that is under constant negotiation. It is increasingly argued that we can read places as possessing multiple, …
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The archive of place : environment and the contested past of a North American plateau
… evidence plays in historical consciousness and social memory. It consists of three case studies from the Chilcotin Plateau in the west-central part of present-day British Columbia. In each, a conflict in the mid-1990s over the nature of the past and its relevance for the present allowed …
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