Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany : Heritage Fetishism and Redeeming Germanness
ISBN: 9781137032836
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: History; Social Science;

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.

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.

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