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Death of the Father - An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority (Paperback, New edition)
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Death of the Father - An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority (Paperback, New edition)
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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. 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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