Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary

by John C. Swanson

Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership tried to organize German-speaking villagers, Hungary tried to integrate (and later expel) them, and Germany courted them. The German speakers themselves, however, kept negotiating and renegotiating their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822964295
• ISBN13: 9780822964292
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"