{"product_id":"on-the-social-life-of-postsocialism-memory-consumption-germany-paperback","title":"On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaphne Berdahl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMatti Bunzl\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichael Herzfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German reunification, to her insightful analyses of consumption, nostalgia, and citizenship in the early 21st century, Berdahl's writings probe the contradictions, paradoxes, and ambiguities of postsocialism as few observers have done. This volume brings together her essays, from an early study of memory at the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., to research on consumption and citizenship undertaken in Leipzig in the years before her untimely death. It serves as a superb introduction to the development of the field of postsocialist cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaphne Berdahl (1964-2007) was Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland\u003c\/i\u003e and editor (with Matti Bunzl and Martha Lampland) of \u003ci\u003eAltering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMatti Bunzl is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author of \u003ci\u003eSymptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 23, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751969227040,"sku":"9780253221704","price":35.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8bce2e86dbadd7218a77f5c2e6bce0cc.webp?v=1779984468","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/on-the-social-life-of-postsocialism-memory-consumption-germany-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}