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The political lives of dead bodies: reburial and postsocialist change

By Katherine Verdery

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0231112300, 9780231112307
LCC
GT3242 .V47 1999
Open Library ID
OL382703M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2453530 bytes)
Pages
204\205
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

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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