The Political Lives of Dead Bodies Reburial and Postsocialist Change
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
- Publish date: 03/01/1999
In this provocative book, renowned anthropologist Katherine Verdery explores Eastern Europe's political transformation from the perspective of sacred, symbolic ways that nations and cultures redefine themselves when new political orders are installed.
Verdery unpacks the meaning of these reburials with a wealth of fascinating examples. Along with Czar Nicholas II and Lenin, they include:
-- Imre Nagy -- a dishonored Hungarian communist leader, executed in 1958 and buried face down in an unmarked grave -- whose honorable reinternment in 1989 drew a quarter of a million Hungarians and foreign dignitaries to Budapest in 1989;
-- Prince Lazar Of Serbia, whose death in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 was commemorated from 1987 to 1989 with a tour of his remains to monasteries in all the territories Serbs claim as part of their state today;
-- Bishop Inochentie Micu Of Transylvania, who died in Rome in 1768 and whose retur for Transylvanian reburial in 1997 reinvigorated Greek Catholicism, which had been brutally suppressed under communism.
"The Political Lives Of Dead Bodies" presents a dynamic model for approaching politics not merely as a series of statistics but as a fundamental cultural process.
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