| Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory Contributor(s): Antze, Paul (Editor), Lambek, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415915635 ISBN-13: 9780415915632 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: "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. Contributors include renowned scholars from several displines, including anthropologist Maurice Bloch and philosopher Ian Hacking; they represent the perspectives of diverse fields including medical anthropology, history of science, psychiatry, feminist studies, and Jewish studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Personal Growth - Memory Improvement - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 153.12 |
| LCCN: 95-26249 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.96" W x 8.93" (1.02 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
