Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany [electronic resource] : Heritage Fetishism and Redeeming Germanness /
James, J.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 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.
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.
Europe, Central—History.
Ethnology.
Civilization—History.
Anthropology.
Intellectual life—History.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Cultural History.
Anthropology.
Intellectual Studies.