Abandoning the container account of memory needs supplementing by the task/tool metaphor. That memories are ‘true’ recollections requires a social constructionist intrepretation, attention to the roles of formal records and the dramaturgy of displays. Technology and tradition are both, in the end, narrative forms.
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