Memorates and memory: A re-evaluation of Lauri Honko’s theory

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BAHNA Vladimír

Rok publikování 2015
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Temenos
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Filozofická fakulta

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www http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/temenos/article/view/8783/15569
Obor Archeologie, antropologie, etnologie
Klíčová slova Lauri Honko; memorates; autobiographical memory; cognitive science of religion
Popis This paper deals with the phenomena where culture and society influence the content of personal experiences. It confronts psychological knowledge about autobiographical memory and folkloristic theories associated with the concept of memorate – a personal experience narrative which is built upon a supernatural belief. Autobiographical memory is not a vessel in which static information is deposited and later recalled; rather, it is a dynamic process of repeated construction and reconstruction of memories, which is subject to many internal and external influences. Ideas and concepts, widespread in society, dreams and beliefs, stories and experiences of others, can be, and often are incorporated into autobiographical memories. Similarly folklorists have shown that memorates (personal experience narratives) often consist of traditional elements. This paper argues that the theory formulated by Lauri Honko (1962, 1964) regarding the formation and transmission of memorates is largely coherent with psychological understanding of autobiographical memory. This kind of social contagion of memory suggests the possibility of a specific form of experientally-based cultural transmission of beliefs and concepts
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