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DEATH OF THE FATHER
AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE END IN POLITICAL AUTHORITY |
| By: |
John Borneman |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1571813896 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781571813893 |
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| Publisher: |
BERGHAHN BOOKS, INCORPORATED |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2004 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
"Death of the Father" is a comparative examination of the crises in symbolic identification and national traumas that have resulted from the defeat and/or implosion of regimes in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Communist Eastern Europe. |
| Synopsis: |
The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss. In the twentieth century, the authority of the father and of the leader became closely intertwined; constraints and affective attachments intensified in ways that had major effects on the organization of regimes of authority. This comparative volume examines the resulting crisis in symbolic identification, the national traumas that had crystallized around four state political forms: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and East European Communism. The defeat of Imperial and Fascist regimes in 1945 and the implosion of Communist regimes in 1989 were critical moments of rupture, of "death of the father." What was the experience of their ends, and what is the reconstruction of those ends in memory? This volume represents is the beginning of a comparative social anthropology of caesurae: the end of traumatic political regimes, of their symbolic forms, political consequences, and probable futures. John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, specializes in political and legal anthropology.He has written widely on national identification and symbolic form in Germany and on the relation of culture to international order. His most recent work is on accountability and the use of retributive justice in preventing cycles of violence. |
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black & white illustrations |
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US |
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Berghahn Books, Incorporated |
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