The Political Lives of Dead Bodies Reburial and Postsocialist Change |
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Author:
| Verdery, Katherine |
Series title: | The Harriman Lectures |
ISBN: | 978-0-231-11230-7 |
Publication Date: | May 1999 |
Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $199.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.