The Political Lives Of Dead Bodies,9780231112314

The Political Lives Of Dead Bodies

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ISBN13: 9780231112314
ISBN10: 0231112319
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-09-30
Publisher(s): Columbia Univ Pr
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Summary

Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses -- the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more humble folk -- have taken on a political life in the turbulent times following the end of Communist Party rule, and what roles they play in revising the past and reorienting the present. Enlivening and invigorating the dialogue on postsocialist politics, this imaginative study helps us understand the dynamic and deeply symbolic nature of politics -- and how it can breathe new life into old bones.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Corpses on the Move 1(3)
A Parade of Dead Bodies
4(19)
Named and Famous Dead: Statues
4(9)
Names and Famous Corpses
13(7)
Anonymous Dead
20(3)
Dead Bodies Animate the Study of Politics
23(32)
Why Dead Bodies?
27(6)
Reordering Worlds of Meaning
33(22)
Authority, Politics, and the Sacred
37(1)
Moral Order
38(1)
Reconfiguring Space and Time
39(1)
National Identities and Social Relations
40(15)
The Restless Bones of Bishop Inochentie Micu
55(40)
Who Was Bishop Inochentie Micu?
58(7)
Inochentie Begins to Stir
65(23)
Competition Over Property
66(6)
Troubles Within Romanian Orthodoxy
72(2)
Competition Around Romanian Identity
74(3)
Inochentie's Biography and the Question of Sentiment
77(2)
Competition in the Religious Market
79(5)
Reorganizing World Religions
84(4)
Inochentie Comes Home
88(7)
Giving proper Burial, Reconfiguring Space and Time
95(34)
Former Yugoslavia, land of Graves
98(5)
Reconfiguring Space
103(3)
The Politics of Territory
103(1)
Ancestors, Soil, and Nations
104(2)
Ancestors and Proper Burial
106(5)
Reconfiguring Time
111(18)
Accountability and the Past: Rewriting History
111(4)
Time Compression and the Shapes of History
115(5)
Reconfigured Temporalities and Alternative Political Projects
120(9)
Notes 129(38)
References 167(10)
Index 177

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