Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Varieties of Historical Experience 2. The Generic Turn: Genre, Audience, and Reclaiming Historical Authority 3. Biographical Construction and Intertextual Being 4. Gooseflesh: Music, Somatosensation, and the Making of Historical Experience 5. Affective Democracy: Building a Community of Feeling through Spanish Mass Grave Exhumations 6. Memory, Mediation, and the Aesthetic: Reframing Waterloo 7. Of Arks and Dragons: The Power of Entertainment in Creationist Historicity 8. Bodies, Artifacts and Ghosts: NAGPRA, Ceremonies of Repossession and the Unsettling of Settler Colonialism 9. Competing Roadways, Contesting Bloodlines: Registers of Biopower at a Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally 10. Iterative Interactions: Old and New Media Inflections of the Historical Imagination 11. Sensors and Sources: How a Universal Model of Instrumentation Affects Our Experiences of the Past 12. Towards a New Historical Condition

About the Author

Stephan Palmié is Professor of Anthropology at The University of Chicago, USA.

Charles Stewart is Professor of Anthropology at University College London, UK.