Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conversational remembering : a social psychological approach / David Middleton and Derek Edwards -- Artefacts, memory and a sense of the past / Alan Radley -- Collective memory, ideology and the British royal family / Michael Billig -- The reconstruction of Abraham Lincoln / Barry Schwartz -- Ronald Reagan misremembered / Michael Schudson -- The social construction of remembering and forgetting / John Shotter -- Organizational forgetting : an activity-theoretical perspective / Yrjö Engeström ... [et al.] -- Sharing knowledge, celebrating identity : community memory in a service culture / Julian E. Orr -- Folk explanation in language survival / Carol A. Padden -- Social memory in Soviet thought / David Bakhurst.