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3 unusual facts about Jan Assmann


Aleida Assmann

Since the 1990s her focus has been on cultural anthropology, especially Cultural and Communicative Memory, terms she and Jan Assmann coined and developed.

She had to take her minor field examination in Egyptology in Tübingen because her husband Jan Assmann had become a professor of Egyptology in Heidelberg.

Collective memory

Jan Assmann: Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies, Stanford UP 2005



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