Preservation and national belonging in eastern Germany: heritage fetishism and redeeming Germanness

TitlePreservation and national belonging in eastern Germany: heritage fetishism and redeeming Germanness
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsJason James
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
CityHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
ISBN Number978-0-230-32034-5 0-230-32034-1
Abstract

"Drawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies, this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by illuminating local, everyday engagements with Germanness through heritage fetishism, claims to hometown belonging, and the performative appropriation of cultural property"--

Short TitlePreservation and national belonging in eastern Germany