保罗·康纳顿社会记忆理论探析

Paul Connerton's Theory of Social Memory

社会记忆理论,已然成为一个跨学科、多向度的概念,当下在历史学、人类学、民俗学等学科应用并发展。美国学者保罗·康纳顿和法国学者莫里斯?哈布瓦赫作为研究社会记忆理论的两位著名学者,分别在“社会记忆”与“集体记忆”研究领域产生了深刻影响,二者将“记忆”的呈现均看作社会的建构,而这样的建构由当前的关注所形塑。保罗·康纳顿用社会记忆理论代替集体记忆理论形成自己的理论理解与阐释,社会记忆理论成为继集体记忆理论之后又一具有深刻学术影响的理论范式。

Social memory theory has become an interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional concept and has been applied and developed in history,anthropology,folklore and other disciplines.Paul Connerton's social memory theory and Maurice Habwah's collective memory theory,as different theoretical paradigms for the study of"memory",show the development context of their theories,both of which regard the presentation of"memory"as the construction of society shaped by the current attention.Paul Connerton has his own theoretical understanding and interpretation by using social memory theory instead of collective memory theory.Social memory theory has become another theoretical paradigm with profound academic influence after collective memory theory.