Epilogue: Memory Moments

It is apparent that the past has a robust future. With the intensification of globalization comes an increase in discourses of the past, accompanied by an expansion of memory studies in the academy. This “memory moment” is generating research on topics that are at once intensely personal and political. Anthropological approaches capable of linking the affective textures of personal experience with the broad sweep of collective histories are well suited to research in this area. Taken together, the articles assembled here suggest the emergence of new paradigms for understanding the cultural and emotional politics of social memory making. [memory, history, identity, cultural politics, cultural psychology]