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

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 ha...

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Main Author: Ten Dyke, Elizabeth A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Series:Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 28.
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 316 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-307) and index.
ISBN:9781136466342
1136466347
9781315014999
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9781136466489
1136466487
9781136466410
113646641X
9780415866194
0415866197
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.