Tense Past

✍ Scribed by Paul Antze and Michael Lambek

• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Series: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 2
Half Title......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Introduction: Forecasting Memory......Page 11
I. Remembering Tramna, Remaking the Self......Page 41
1. Telling Stories, Making Selves; Memory and Identity in Multiple Personality Disorder......Page 43
2. Remembering Trouble: Three Lives, Three Stories......Page 66
3. Contested Meanings and Controverisal Memories: Narratives of Sexual Abuse in Western Newfoundland......Page 89
II. The Medicalization of Memory......Page 113
4. Memory Sciences, Memory Politics......Page 115
5. Bodily Memory and Traumatic Memory......Page 145
6. Traumatic Cures: Shell Shock, Janet, and the Question of Memory......Page 159
III. Culture As Memorial Practice......Page 202
7. Trauma, Time, Illness, and Culture: An Anthropological Approach to Traumatic Memory......Page 206
8. Landscapes of Memory: Trauma, Narrative, and Dissociation......Page 227
9. Missions to the Past: Poland in Contemporary Jewish Thought and Deed......Page 256
10. Internal and External Memory: Different Ways of Being in History......Page 278
11. The Past Imperfect: Remembering As Moral Practice......Page 298
Contributors......Page 319
Author Index......Page 321
Subject Index......Page 329

✦ Subjects

memory, trauma, anthropology