Preservation and national belonging in Eastern Germany : heritage fetishism and redeeming Germanness

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Preservation and national belonging in Eastern Germany : heritage fetishism and redeeming Germanness

Jason James

(Palgrave Macmillan memory studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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

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

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