Evoking Polish Memory
The book presents an ethnographic study of ways in which communism is remembered in contemporary Poland. It follows two groups of people engaged in memory politics in one Polish town – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime. It shows the processes of reconstruction of their memories and subjectivities.
The book presents an ethnographic study of ways in which communism is remembered in contemporary Poland. It follows two groups of people engaged in memory politics in one Polish town – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime. It shows the processes of reconstruction of their memories and subjectivities.
| Autor: | Witeska-Mlynarczyk, Anna |
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| ISBN: | 9783631641637 |
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 253 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Veröffentlicht: | 28.01.2014 |
| Untertitel: | State, Self and the Communist Past in Transition |
| Schlagworte: | Anna Communist Dariusz Erinnerung Evoking Geschichtlichkeit Kommunismus Memory Mlynarczyk memory landscape |
Anna Witeska-Mlynarczyk is a lecturer at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). She received a PhD in Social Anthropology at the University College London in 2010. Her research interests focus on memory, subjectivity, medical anthropology and anthropology of space.