Bartlett's Psycho-anthropological Project

Rosa, Alberto

doi:10.1177/1354067x9600200401

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“…Bartlett's theory of cultural dynamics was a further development of diffusionist anthropology, especially as it was practiced by his Cambridge mentors William Haddon and WHR Rivers (see also Rosa, 1996). Haddon (1894Haddon ( , 1895 explored the variations and development of decorative art forms with an analogy to how Darwin had looked at the spread and evolution of species (Rolda´n, 1992).…”

Section: Bartlett's Constructivist Approach: Between Anthropology Andmentioning

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What makes memory constructive? A study in the serial reproduction of Bartlett’s experiments

Wagoner

2017

Culture & Psychology

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The claim that memory is constructive or reconstructive is no longer controversial in psychology. However, in the last decades it has generally been taken to mean that our memories are inaccurate or distorted. In the locus classicus of the constructive memory idea-Bartlett's Remembering-we find a different meaning: Constructive is there understood as a future-oriented and adaptive characteristic of remembering, which can also lead to accuracy. His notion of constructiveness was even earlier elaborated in relation to group dynamics in his book Psychology and Primitive Culture. How did we get from one meaning of constructive to another? This question is explored through a serial reproduction analysis of experiments purporting to replicate Bartlett's study. The focus is on the transformation of terminology used to describe qualitative changes introduced by subjects into reproductions. In this history a diversity of terms, coming from different intellectual sources, is gradually subsumed under the single term 'distortion'. Thus, psychologists have reconstructed Bartlett's work based on their own background, other influences and their own project for the discipline, illustrating the very constructive processes Bartlett theorized.

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Section: Bartlett's Constructivist Approach: Between Anthropology Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

What makes memory constructive? A study in the serial reproduction of Bartlett’s experiments

Wagoner

2017

Culture & Psychology

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“…Thus, these experiments provided a psychological mechanism-based on what Bartlett (1932) referred to as a person's "effort after meaning"-to help understand an anthropological process (see Rosa, 1996). Similarly, when he came to theorize the experiments as being about remembering, he did not see it as a purely individual process but as occurring through the conventions taken over from one's social group.…”

Section: Remembering Bartlett: Toward a Culturally And Historically Smentioning

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Culture, history, and psychology: Some historical reflections and research directions

Wagoner

Brescó²

2018

Culture & Psychology

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Psychologists have typically narrated their discipline's history so as to glorify an experimental method, which analyzes the mind independently of cultural and historical factors. In line with Jahoda's sociocultural sensitivity to psychology, this article critically interrogates the plausibility for this vision of psychology as cut off from wider social processes, and offers an alternative based on a re-appropriation of concepts and methods from psychology's past that highlight cultural processes. This approach is illustrated with a study of how people remember history narratives on the basis of cultural resources taken over from social groups they belong to, and which thus embed them within a stream of history. Both psychologists' narratives of their discipline and people's everyday memory of history are shown to be motivated toward the justification of particular visions of social reality.

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“…Indeed, a central point of his argument -one that Alberto Rosa (1996) notes has often been overlooked in contemporary psychology -is that 'social organization gives a persistent framework into which all detailed recall must fit, and it very powerfully influences both the manner and the matter of recall' (Bartlett 1995(Bartlett [1932: 296). Indeed, a central point of his argument -one that Alberto Rosa (1996) notes has often been overlooked in contemporary psychology -is that 'social organization gives a persistent framework into which all detailed recall must fit, and it very powerfully influences both the manner and the matter of recall' (Bartlett 1995(Bartlett [1932: 296).…”

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Collective remembering

Wertsch¹

2009

Semiotica

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Renewed interest in collective memory has raised the need for conceptual elaboration of the topic and how it can be studied. In an attempt to clarify how it fits into interdisciplinary discussion the following conceptual oppositions are laid out: memory versus remembering, collective versus individual remembering, history versus collective memory, and strong versus distributed versions of collective remembering. Collective memory is then analyzed from the perspective of M. M. Bakhtin's understanding of 'text' in which a 'language system' is contrasted with an 'individual, unique, and unrepeatable' pole of textual analysis. These ideas are harnessed to examine forms of dialogicality that shape collective memory, especially in politically contested cases such as Estonian and Russian accounts of conflict over the past century.

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Bartlett's Psycho-anthropological Project

Cited by 35 publications

References 14 publications

What makes memory constructive? A study in the serial reproduction of Bartlett’s experiments

What makes memory constructive? A study in the serial reproduction of Bartlett’s experiments

Culture, history, and psychology: Some historical reflections and research directions

Collective remembering

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