The Political Lives of Dead Bodies

Name: The Political Lives of Dead Bodies
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 0231112319
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ISBN: 9780231112314

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08 Sep, 2000

By Katherine Verdery (author)

Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corp...

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ISBN-10:

0231112319

ISBN-13:

9780231112314

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Dimensions

8.90 X 5.90 X 0.50 inches

Language

English

Description

Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses--the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more humble folk--have taken on a political life in the turbulent times following the end of Communist Party rule, and what roles they play in revising the past and reorienting the present. Enlivening and invigorating the dialogue on postsocialist politics, this imaginative study helps us understand the dynamic and deeply symbolic nature of politics--and how it can breathe new life into old bones.

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ISBN-10

:0231112319

ISBN-13

:9780231112314

Publisher

:Columbia University Press

Publication date

: 08 Sep, 2000

Editorial Reviews

A pithy, and highly readable, example of current anthropological approaches to national-level politics. The emergence of such a focus on national-level processes is one of the most important developments in the anthropological study of politics today.--David I. Kertzer "Journal of Interdisciplinary History"

About the Author

Katherine Verdery is Eric R. Wolf Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is the author of What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?; National Ideology Under Socialism; and Transylvanian Villagers.

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