The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change by Verdery, Katherine

The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231112314)

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The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change by Verdery, Katherine

The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change

$34.00
The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change by Verdery, Katherine

The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change

$34.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Katherine Verdery
ISBN-10: 0231112319
ISBN-13: 9780231112314
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2000
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
By Katherine Verdery
By Katherine Verdery
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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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