Death of the Father: An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority

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John Borneman
Berghahn Books, 1. 12. 2003. - 256 страница

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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Theorizing Regime Ends
1
From Future to Past
33
Gottvater Landesvater Familienvater
63
Two Deaths of Hirohito in Japan
104
The Undead
123
The Peaceful Death of Tito and the Violent End of Yugoslavia
148
Doubtful Dead Fathers and Musical Corpses
201
Notes on Contributors
220
Index
222
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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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