Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA08328 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 20 Sep 2000 05:19:38 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:16:38 -0700 From: "Scott Chase" <hemidactylus@my-Deja.com> Message-ID: <IOMJEINHDGGLEAAA@my-deja.com> X-Sent-Mail: off X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: Re: Terms specific to the field of Memetics X-Sender-Ip: 209.240.200.135 Organization: My Deja Email (http://www.my-deja.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Length: 1544 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
--On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:33:37 Joe E. Dees wrote: > I already have L-meme and G-meme (Thanx Tim!) and >memeplex (Thanx Robin!); information on any other memetic-field- >specific terms, and their genesis and evolutionary history, would be >greatly appreciated. > > As for whatever use there is in the context of L-memes for the mnemon unit, JZ Young employed this term quite a while back. Look up some of his books. I have a paper of his around here somewhere, along with one which Aaron Lynch pointed out to me by someone named Cherkin, who also uses the mnemon unit. Both Young and Cherkin cite Semon. Cherkin even decomposes the mnemon unit as such: "(mneme = memory; -on = suffix denoting a fundamental particle)"
See: Cherkin A. 1966. Toward a quantitative view of the engram. PNAS (55): 88-91
Young JZ. 1965. The Organization of a memory system (the Croonian Lecture 1965). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (163): 285-320
Now, as a present interest of mine, can anyone elaborate on the concept of "collective representations" as used by Lucien Levy-Bruhl? The book of Levy-Bruhl's I've been reading is heavy on application and light on definitions and theoretical underpinnings. I gather that this book assumes a familiarity with Levy-Bruhl's previous work(s). I've been waiting for his other book to become available at my library for many, many months. I think somebody is sitting on it.
Scott "not an ethnographer" Chase
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