Preservation and national belonging in eastern Germany
Subtitle: heritage fetishism and redeeming Germanness
By: Jason James
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780230320345
Subjects: Politics and government; Historic preservation; Fetishism; Belonging (Social psychology); German National characteristics; Cultural property; Memory; Social conditions; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality; Cultural policy; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; title: List of Figures; title: The Historic Cityscape and the Unified Nation; title: Heimat Eisenach; title: Cultural Heritage and Germanness; title: Heritage Fetishism and the Heimat Imaginary; title: Claiming Cultural Belongings; title: Redemption and the Voice of Trauma; title: List of works cited; title: Index.