Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory

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.

Author: Paul Antze
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/10/1996
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.93h x 5.96w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780415915632

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. MichaelLambek is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Human Spiritis: A CulturalAccount of Trace in Mayotte and Knowledge and Practice inMayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and SpiritPossession.