ABSTRACT
The fruit of the close collaboration of a group of (mainly Canadian) scholars, this collection of essays testifies to the development of an exciting interdisciplinary approach to the study of memory as a cultural object. Moving in the main within an anthropological framework, the essays in this volume represent an attempt to flesh out and problematize the discursive contexts within which a focus on memories of trauma becomes the sanctioned way of thinking about the relation between past and present.
