Abstract
After a brief and pointed recapitulation of the main issues of Demuth, Chaudhary and Keller’s article, Memories of me. Comparisons from Osnabrück (Germany) and Delhi (India) students and their mothers (doi:10.1007/s12124-010-9136-5), alternative or complementary approaches to the investigation of ‘doing’ memory and self in different cultural contexts are outlined in a sketch of three interrelated proposals. These proposals turn around a) ‘contemporaneousness of the non-contemporaneous’ (Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen) and the analysis of ‘cultural hybrids’, b) ‘indigenous concepts of memory and self’ and c) ‘memory and self in actual cultural practice’.
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An awareness of the ‘contemporaneousness of the non-contemporaneous’ is a key constituent of a specifically modern historical consciousness that can already be found—at least rudimentarily—in adolescents’ historical thinking (Kölbl and Straub 2001).
An elicitation and in-depth-analysis of ‘memories of me’ as far as common samskaras are concerned would be of utmost psychological interest.
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Kölbl, C., Mey, G. On ‘Doing’ Memory and Self in Different Cultural Contexts. Integr. psych. behav. 45, 68–75 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-011-9153-z
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