On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany - Couverture souple

Berdahl, Daphne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253221706 ISBN 13 : 9780253221704

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German reunification, to her insightful analyses of consumption, nostalgia, and citizenship in the early 21st century, Berdahl's writings probe the contradictions, paradoxes, and ambiguities of postsocialism as few observers have done. This volume brings together her essays, from an early study of memory at the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., to research on consumption and citizenship undertaken in Leipzig in the years before her untimely death. It serves as a superb introduction to the development of the field of postsocialist cultural studies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daphne Berdahl (1964-2007) was Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland and editor (with Matti Bunzl and Martha Lampland) of Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.

Matti Bunzl is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna and Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253221706
• ISBN 13: 9780253221704
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Éditeur: Bunzl Matti
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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