Author: Verdery, Katherine
Title: The Political Lives of Dead Bodies : Reburial and Postsocialist Change
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, (1999). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xvi,185 pp. Textual photo illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Corpses on the Move: A Parade of Dead Bodies; Names & Famous Dead: Statues; Names & Famous Corpses; Anonymous Dead; Dead Bodies Animate the Study of Politics: Why Dead Bodies? Reordering the Worlds of Meaning: Authority, Politics & the Sacred; Moral Order; Reconfiguring Space & Time; National Identities & Social Relations; The Restless Bones of Bishop Inochentie Micu: Whio Was Bishop Inochentie Micu? Inochentie Begins to Stir; Competition Over Property; Troubles within Romanian Orthodoxy; Competition Around Romanian Identity; Inochentie's Biography & the Question of Sentiment; Competition in the Religious Market;Reorganizing World Religions; Inochentie Comes Home; Giving Proper Burial, Reconfiguring Space & Time: Former Yugoslavia, Land of Graves; Reconfiguring Space: The Politics of Territory; Ancestors, Soil & Nations; Ancestors & Proper Burials; Reconfiguring Time: Accountability & the Past: Rewriting History; Time Compression & the Shapes of History; Reconfigured Temporalities & Alternative Political Projects.

Keywords: Political Anthropology, Political History, Postsocialist, Eastern Europe, Romania Yugoslavia, Russia Burial, Funeral Rites, Ethnography, Politics Communism