... witness and biography, the alternation between self and other,sound and silence, the person and the collective, the visible and the invisible,emerges in situations where authentication of self and ... absence—to the silenced and the dead who would nevertestify. The presence of these women, and the shadows they brought into the hearing room, evoked the historical depth and recesses of their witness ... anthropology and its cognates medicine, psychol-ogy, law, or theodicy? The trauma -aesthetic signifies the irruption of the abnormal and the pathogenic. Trauma contravenes the homeostatic and the routine,...