Abstract
Abstract I. Historical Memory, Invention of the Past, and Collective Identity: The Nature and Function of Foundation Tales 0 RIG IN s are crucial. As anthropological studies have shown, every society’s sense of collective identity is established and expressed by traditions about its past. It is the social memory that lends continuity to the awareness of the distinctive nature of one group’s experience. Thus, to recollect one’s own past is immediately to identify oneself.’ It will be no surprise, then, to find that traditions of origin structure corporate identity and that societies, in turn, understand themselves in terms of their origin. After all, reality
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