Tense past : cultural essays in trauma and memory / edited by Paul Antze & Michael Lambek.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : forecasting memory -- 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 controversial memories : narratives of sexual abuse in Western Newfoundland / Glynis George -- 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 -- 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 / Muarice Bloch -- The past imperfect : remembering as moral practice / Michael Lambek.