Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory / Edition 1

by Paul Antze, Michael Lambek

Overview

Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust. Contributors examine the historical origins of memory in psychiatric discourse and show its connection to broader developments in Western science and medicine. They address the new links between trauma and memory, and they explore how memory shapes the way traumatic events are put into narrative form. They also consider the social and political contexts in which sufferers speak and remember.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415915632
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/10/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Antze teaches in the Division of Social Science and in the Graduate Programs in Anthropology and Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. Michael Lambek is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Human Spiritis: A Cultural Account of Trace in Mayotte and Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession.

Table of Contents

Part I Remembering Trauma, Remaking the Self; Chapter 1 Telling Stories, Making Selves, Paul Antze; Chapter 2 Remembering Trouble, Donna J. Young; Chapter 3 Contested Meanings and Controversial Memories, Glynis George; Part II The Medicalization of Memory; Chapter 4 Memory Sciences, Memory Politics, Ian Hacking; Chapter 5 Bodily Memory and Traumatic Memory, Allan Young; Chapter 6 Traumatic Cures, Ruth Leys; Part III Culture As Memorial Practice; Chapter 7 Trauma, Time, Illness, and Culture, Michael G. Kenny; Chapter 8 Landscapes of Memory, Laurence J. Kirmayer; Chapter 9 Missions to the Past, Jack Kugelmass; Chapter 10 Internal and External Memory, Maurice Bloch; Chapter 11 The Past Imperfect, Michael Lambek;

Editorial Reviews

"Highly recommended for social workers and for practitioners in related fields." — The Social Worker
"The book represents a milestone in studies of memory in giving a much-needed cross-cultural perspective on the field , in a way at the same time is sensitive to psychological and historical approaches." — Anthropologica, XLIII (2001).

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