Transactive memory, the transmission and use of knowledge between two or more people, is an important construct to consider when studying work teams. This thesis reviews the literature on transactive memory systems (TMS) in order to summarize what is currently known about TMS and to identify gaps in the literature in need of further investigation. Past TMS research is reviewed according to the operational definitions, antecedents, team processes, outcomes, team performance, and boundary conditions. TMS is most frequently operationalized using Lewis' (2003) TMS scale. Research has focused on three types of antecedents: Communication, Team Characteristics, and Facilitation of TMS. Two common types of team processes found were coordination and team monitoring & backup behavior. Outcomes frequently focused on were team cognition, and team effectiveness. Team performance was ubiquitous in almost all the literature. Boundary conditions, however, varied considerably

A comparative analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, with a focus on individual as well as collective memory work in historically marginalized indigenous and African-American communities, respectively. This represents a critical study of how the novels invoke progressive and redemptive models of remembering, as well as foreground the role of spiritual guides in the transformative process from trauma towards healing.

Esta pesquisa trata do estudo de narrativa biográfica e trajetória social e da técnica de etnografia sonora no estudo da memória da vida cotidiana dos habitantes do território Bairro Navegantes, Porto Alegre-RS, tendo como ponto de partida a interpretação das formas de negociação dos habitantes locais com as transformações produzidas, ao longo das últimas décadas, na paisagem do bairro. Através da pesquisa etnográfica das formas de trabalho, gestos de ocupação, e sociabilidades dos moradores de dois lugares dos bairros São Geraldo e Navegantes, e das suas formas de narrar as transformações no interior do coração do Quarto Distrito, esta pesquisa pretende compreender o fenômeno da duração da memória do lugar integrando as formas destes habitantes experienciarem a cidade de Porto Alegre. Busca-se contemplar as tensões, as diferenças de visões de mundo, e estilos de vida dos diferentes atores da cena social etnografada, relacionando-os às distintas práticas sociais no bairro como chave interpretativa das possíveis acomodações por parte de seus habitantes das transformações espaço-temporais do lugar. / This research is a study about biographic account and social path and the audio ethnography technique regarging the study of inhabitants' everyday life memory in the Bairro Navegantes territory, Porto Alegre, Brazil. The interpretation of dealing methods of the local with the transformations produced in the area's landscapte throughout the last decades is the starting point of this study. Through the ethnographic research of the forms of work, occupation acts, and sociabilities from Porto Alegre's neighborhoods of São Geraldo's and Navegantes' inhabitants - and their ways of accouting the transformation in the inner area of Quarto Distrito - , this research aims at understanding the place memory duration phenomenon integrating the ways these subjects experienced the city of Porto Alegre. Moreover, it aims at contemplating the tensions, the differences of worldview, and lifestyles of the diverse actors of the ethnographic social scene, relating them to distinct social practice in the studied area as interpretative key to possible accomodation for the space-time transformation of the place by its inhabitants.

Esta pesquisa trata do estudo de narrativa biográfica e trajetória social e da técnica de etnografia sonora no estudo da memória da vida cotidiana dos habitantes do território Bairro Navegantes, Porto Alegre-RS, tendo como ponto de partida a interpretação das formas de negociação dos habitantes locais com as transformações produzidas, ao longo das últimas décadas, na paisagem do bairro. Através da pesquisa etnográfica das formas de trabalho, gestos de ocupação, e sociabilidades dos moradores de dois lugares dos bairros São Geraldo e Navegantes, e das suas formas de narrar as transformações no interior do coração do Quarto Distrito, esta pesquisa pretende compreender o fenômeno da duração da memória do lugar integrando as formas destes habitantes experienciarem a cidade de Porto Alegre. Busca-se contemplar as tensões, as diferenças de visões de mundo, e estilos de vida dos diferentes atores da cena social etnografada, relacionando-os às distintas práticas sociais no bairro como chave interpretativa das possíveis acomodações por parte de seus habitantes das transformações espaço-temporais do lugar. / This research is a study about biographic account and social path and the audio ethnography technique regarging the study of inhabitants' everyday life memory in the Bairro Navegantes territory, Porto Alegre, Brazil. The interpretation of dealing methods of the local with the transformations produced in the area's landscapte throughout the last decades is the starting point of this study. Through the ethnographic research of the forms of work, occupation acts, and sociabilities from Porto Alegre's neighborhoods of São Geraldo's and Navegantes' inhabitants - and their ways of accouting the transformation in the inner area of Quarto Distrito - , this research aims at understanding the place memory duration phenomenon integrating the ways these subjects experienced the city of Porto Alegre. Moreover, it aims at contemplating the tensions, the differences of worldview, and lifestyles of the diverse actors of the ethnographic social scene, relating them to distinct social practice in the studied area as interpretative key to possible accomodation for the space-time transformation of the place by its inhabitants.

Esta pesquisa trata do estudo de narrativa biográfica e trajetória social e da técnica de etnografia sonora no estudo da memória da vida cotidiana dos habitantes do território Bairro Navegantes, Porto Alegre-RS, tendo como ponto de partida a interpretação das formas de negociação dos habitantes locais com as transformações produzidas, ao longo das últimas décadas, na paisagem do bairro. Através da pesquisa etnográfica das formas de trabalho, gestos de ocupação, e sociabilidades dos moradores de dois lugares dos bairros São Geraldo e Navegantes, e das suas formas de narrar as transformações no interior do coração do Quarto Distrito, esta pesquisa pretende compreender o fenômeno da duração da memória do lugar integrando as formas destes habitantes experienciarem a cidade de Porto Alegre. Busca-se contemplar as tensões, as diferenças de visões de mundo, e estilos de vida dos diferentes atores da cena social etnografada, relacionando-os às distintas práticas sociais no bairro como chave interpretativa das possíveis acomodações por parte de seus habitantes das transformações espaço-temporais do lugar. / This research is a study about biographic account and social path and the audio ethnography technique regarging the study of inhabitants' everyday life memory in the Bairro Navegantes territory, Porto Alegre, Brazil. The interpretation of dealing methods of the local with the transformations produced in the area's landscapte throughout the last decades is the starting point of this study. Through the ethnographic research of the forms of work, occupation acts, and sociabilities from Porto Alegre's neighborhoods of São Geraldo's and Navegantes' inhabitants - and their ways of accouting the transformation in the inner area of Quarto Distrito - , this research aims at understanding the place memory duration phenomenon integrating the ways these subjects experienced the city of Porto Alegre. Moreover, it aims at contemplating the tensions, the differences of worldview, and lifestyles of the diverse actors of the ethnographic social scene, relating them to distinct social practice in the studied area as interpretative key to possible accomodation for the space-time transformation of the place by its inhabitants.

Collective memory has recently become one of the most explored topics in the social sciences and has led to the emergence of a separate and independent subdiscipline called memory studies. The thesis investigates the awakening of collective memory in two borderlands of Central Europe: the former Sudetes region in the Czech Republic and the southern part of former East Prussia in Poland. The thesis provides an overview of the current theories about collective memory with a focus on the interactional and visual character of the studied phenomenon. In line with this, the thesis presents, discusses, and elaborates on research conducted in the two borderlands in 2016 and 2017. The aim of the research was to study the role and form of collective memory (shared remembrance) in ethnic, cultural, and historical borderlands. The contributions of the thesis are both methodological and theoretical. Firstly, the discussed research revealed that between particularly family-based communicative memory and official, institution-generated cultural memory, there is ritualised communicative memory, maintained through interactions among members of the borderland community (community of memory). Secondly, the thesis contributes to various studies within the interactionist paradigm and proves the usability of Goffman's...