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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Table of 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.