J. James

Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany

Heritage Fetishism and Redeeming Germanness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies, this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by illuminating local, everyday engagements with Germanness through heritage fetishism, claims to hometown belonging, and the performative appropriation of cultural property.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-32034-5
• 2012 edition
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780230320345
• ISBN-10: 0230320341
• Artikelnr.: 35533307

Autorenporträt

JASON C. JAMES is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mary Washington, USA. In addition to his research on Eisenach, he has published journal articles on the reconstruction of the Church of Our Lady in Dresden and the politics of culture in unified Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Figures The Historic Cityscape and the Unified Nation Heimat Eisenach Cultural Heritage and Germanness Heritage Fetishism and the Heimat Imaginary Claiming Cultural Belongings Redemption and the Voice of Trauma List of Works Cited Index

Rezensionen

'Jason James has written a beautiful book, one that shows the massive virtues of anthropological research into national identity. Heritage is not just a context, but an active construction of real people in real time. Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany is a nuanced portrait of people struggling to make meaning in a landscape fraught with competing pressures, and captures the complexities of that process exceptionally well.'

- Jeffrey Olick, University of Virginia, USA