Title: Tense past : cultural essays in trauma and memory /
Authors: Antze, Paul, 1943-; Lambek, Michael
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Mental Recall; Social Environment; Memory; Memory Social aspects.; Recovered memory; Psychic trauma
Contents: Introduction: Forecasting memory -- I. Remembering trauma, remaking the self. Telling stories, making selves: memory and identity in Multiple Personality Disorder / Paul Antze -- Remembering trouble: three lives, three stories / Donna J. Young -- Contested meanings and controverisal memories: narratives of sexual abuse in Western Newfoundland / Glynis George -- II. The medicalization of memory. Memory sciences, memory politics / Ian Hacking -- Bodily memory and traumatic memory / Allan Young -- Traumatic cures: shell shock, Janet, and the question of memory / Ruth Leys -- III. Culture as memorial practice. Trauma, time, illness, and culture: an anthropological approach to traumatic memory / Michael G. Kenny -- Landscapes of memory: trauma, narrative, and dissociation / Laurence J. Kirmayer -- Missions to the past: Poland in contemporary Jewish thought and deed / Jack Kugelmass -- Internal and external memory: different ways of being in history / Maurice Bloch -- The past imperfect: remembering as moral practice / Michael Lambek.