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Informationen zum Autor Daphne Berdahl (1964-2007) was Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland and editor (with Matti Bunzl and Martha Lampland) of Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Matti Bunzl is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna and Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe. Klappentext It serves as a superb introduction to the development of the field of postsocialist cultural studies. Zusammenfassung Pathbreaking studies of the postsocialist transition Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Michael Herzfeld Acknowledgments Introduction by Matti Bunzl Part 1. Washington, D.C. 1. Voices at the Wall: Discourses of Self, History, and National Identity at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Part 2. Kella 2. Consumer Rites: The Politics of Consumption in Re-Unified Germany 3. "(N)Ostalgie" for the Present: Memory, Longing, and East German Things 4. "Go, Trabi, Go!": Reflections on a Car and Its Symbolization over Time 5. Mixed Devotions: Religion, Friendship, and Fieldwork in Postsocialist East Germany Part 3. Leipzig 6. The Spirit of Capitalism and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Post-Wall Germany 7. Local Hero, National Crook: "Doc" Schneider and the Spectacle of Finance Capital 8. Expressions of Experience and Experiences of Expression: Museum Re-Presentations of GDR History 9. Goodbye Lenin, Aufwiedersehen GDR: On the Social Life of Socialism Notes References Index
