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Death of the Father: An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority
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Death of the Father: An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority Hardcover - 2003 - 1st Edition

by John Borneman (Editor)


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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.

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  • Title Death of the Father: An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority
  • Author John Borneman (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berghahn Books
  • Date 2003-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781571811110 / 1571811117
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.63 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.60 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002043991
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.2
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