Acknowledgments

Introduction
Michael S. Roth and Charles G. Salas

Part I. Narrative and History

Robert Ouko's Pain: The Negotiation of a "State of Mind"
David William Cohen

Crisis and Representation: Rumor and the Circulation of Hate
Veena Das

Among the Dead
Philip Gourevitch

Part II. Objects and Memory

Lenin in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Leah Dickerman

The Sword and the Lightbulb: A Reading of Guernica
Carlo Ginzburg

Cosmology, Crisis, and Paradox: On the White Spirit in the Kuna Shamanistic Tradition
Carlo Severi

Male Ancestors and Female Deities: Finding Memories of Trauma in a Chinese Village
Jun Jing

Part III. Memory and History

Covering History
István Rév

Holocaust Memory and Identity Building: Metahistorical Considerations in the Case of (West) Germany
Jörn Rüsen

History, Memory, and the Historian: Facing the Shoah
Saul Friedländer

Biographical Notes on the Contributors

Illustration Credits

Index