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Dresden : paradoxes of memory in history / Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 28.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 316 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136466342
  • 1136466347
  • 9781315014999
  • 1315014998
  • 9781136466489
  • 1136466487
  • 9781136466410
  • 113646641X
  • 9780415866194
  • 0415866197
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: DresdenDDC classification:
  • 943.21 D996d 23
LOC classification:
  • DD901.D78 T55 2001eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: The Museum -- Ch. 1. Working through the past in Germany -- Ch. 2. Dresden -- Ch. 3. The ethnographic present -- Ch. 4. Remembering daily life in the GDR -- Ch. 5. The Wende -- Ch. 6. Paradoxes and Contradictions of Memory and History -- Epilogue: 1999.
Summary: The collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of the 'Wende' - the turn of events in 1989 - is based on ethnographic and anthropological research conducted in the early 1990s. Liz Ten Dyke has developed a finely nuanced portrait of the city and its residents as they were caught up in the economic, political and social turmoil that characterized the immediate post-socialist period. By weaving together scholarly research, oral history, and ""ethnographic excursions"" or narratives of salient ex.
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Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-307) and index.

Prologue: The Museum -- Ch. 1. Working through the past in Germany -- Ch. 2. Dresden -- Ch. 3. The ethnographic present -- Ch. 4. Remembering daily life in the GDR -- Ch. 5. The Wende -- Ch. 6. Paradoxes and Contradictions of Memory and History -- Epilogue: 1999.

The collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of the 'Wende' - the turn of events in 1989 - is based on ethnographic and anthropological research conducted in the early 1990s. Liz Ten Dyke has developed a finely nuanced portrait of the city and its residents as they were caught up in the economic, political and social turmoil that characterized the immediate post-socialist period. By weaving together scholarly research, oral history, and ""ethnographic excursions"" or narratives of salient ex.

English.

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