Collective memory first coined by french philosopher Maurice Halbwach’s in 1950 called the La mémoire collective (Paris, 1950). In a rudimentary understanding of the theory, which more than one person experiences the same thing, having a shared experience, classifying, it in collective memory. Halbwach’s describes the theory as memory being within the same framework culturally , politically ,socio-economical. The framework whatever it may be within the context of the subject, the individual memory is placed within the same framework, that makes a shared inheritance and allows for it to become this shared, mutual experience . in this quote taken from Halbwach’s Book The Collective Memory the chapter “History and memory and Collective memory” :
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