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

by Jason James

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230320341
• ISBN13: 9780230320345
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"