Memria e identidade segundo Candau Memory and identity according to Candau

A identidade como um estado psquico e social e a memria como uma faculdade individual e um conjunto de representaes coletivas so o foco geral desta obra. O autor colabora para o estudo das relaes entre memrias individuais e coletivas. Ele decompe o conceito de memria em trs nveis: protomemria, memria de evocao e metamemria, alm de diferenciar as memrias fortes e fracas. A memria forte aquela estruturante de identidade, capaz de organizar sentido. J a debilidade da memria se deve gradativa transformao dos grupos e diluio de seus quadros sociais de memria. Identity as a mental and social state and memory as an individual faculty and a set of collective representations compose the general focus of this work. The author collaborates for the study of relations between individual and collective memories. He decomposes the concept of memory in three levels: protomemory, evocation memory and metamemory, and distinguishes strong from weak memories. The strong memory is the one that structures identity and that is able to organize sense. The memory weakness is due to the gradual transformation of the groups and gradual dilution of their memory social frames.