The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist ChangeSince 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. |
Contents
DEAD BODIES ANIMATE THE STUDY OF POLITICS | 23 |
Why Dead Bodies? | 27 |
Reordering Worlds of Meaning | 33 |
Authority Politics and the Sacred | 37 |
Moral Order | 38 |
Reconfiguring Space and Time | 39 |
National Identities and Social Relations | 40 |
THE RESTLESS BONES OF BISHOP INOCGENTIE MICU | 55 |
Reorganizing World Religions | 84 |
Inochentie Comes Home | 88 |
GIVING PROPER BURIAL RECONFIGURING SPACE AND TIME | 95 |
Former Yugoslavia Land of Graves | 98 |
Reconfiguring Space | 103 |
Ancestors Soil and Nations | 104 |
Ancestors and Proper Burial | 106 |
Reconfiguring Time | 111 |
Who Was Bishop Inochentie Micu? | 58 |
Inochentie Begins to Stir | 65 |
Competition Over Property | 66 |
Troubles Within Romanian Orthodoxy | 72 |
Competition Around Romanian Identity | 74 |
Inochenties Biography and the Question of Sentiment | 77 |
Competition in the Religious Market | 79 |
Time Compression and the Shapes of History | 115 |
Reconfigured Temporalities and Alternative Political Projects | 120 |
Notes | 129 |
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The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change Katherine Verdery No preview available - 1999 |
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