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ZIN Product Number: 10048929
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 Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231112300
Release Date: Jan 5, 1996
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Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Verdery investigates why certain corpses have taken on 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. This imaginative study helps us
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Over the Past ten Years, as the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe have given way to new political systems, an unusual pattern has emerged. In each country of the former East Bloc, the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists and other luminaries, as well as more humble folk, have been taken from their graves - and in many cases repatriated - to be reinterred in new locations. What forces inspired these exhumations of long-dead spirits of Eastern Europe's past, and what are the effects for the living of removing the bones of the dead from their resting places for ceremonial - or unceremonious - reburial? In The Political Lives of Dead Bodies, renowned anthropologist Katherine Verdery examines Eastern Europe's political transformation, exploring the sacred and symbolic ways that people redefine themselves, their history, and their world when new political orders are installed.
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Winner of 1999 Heldt Prize for Best Book by a Woman in Slavic/Eurasian Women's Studies
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| | | |  | | | | List of Illustrations | | | Preface and Acknowledgments | | | Introduction: Corpses on the Move | 1 | | 1 | Dead Bodies Animate the Study of Politics | 23 | | Why Dead Bodies? | 27 | | Reordering Worlds of Meaning | 33 | | 2 | The Restless Bones of Bishop Inochentie Micu | 55 | | Who Was Bishop Inochentie Micu? | 58 | | Inochentie Begins to Stir | 65 | | Inochentie Comes Home | 88 | | 3 | Giving Proper Burial, Reconfiguring Space and Time | 95 | | Former Yugoslavia, Land of Graves | 98 | | Reconfiguring Space | 103 | | Ancestors and Proper Burial | 106 | | Reconfiguring Time | 111 | | Notes | 129 | | References | 167 | | Index | 177 |
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