Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany Heritage Fetishism and Redeeming Germanness

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 proper...

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Main Author: James, Jason
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2012, 2012
Series:Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:IX, 216 p online resource
ISBN:9781137032836