The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change by Katherine Verdery

The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change

Katherine Verdery

208 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses--the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as ...

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