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Bones of Contention - The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero (Hardcover)
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Bones of Contention - The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero (Hardcover)
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This is a historical study, taking as its narrative focus the life,
death and posthumous fate of Vasil Levski (1837-1873), arguably the
major and only uncontested hero of the Bulgarian national pantheon.
The main title refers to the 'thick description' of the reburial
controversy during the final phase of communist Bulgaria, which
centered on the search for Levski's bones. The book gives a
specific understanding also of the relationship between nationalism
and religion in the post-communist period, by analyzing the recent
canonization of Levski. The processes described, although with a
chronological depth of almost two centuries, are still very much in
the making, and the living archive expands not only in size but
with the constant addition of surprising new forms they take.At
another level, the book engages in a variety of general theoretical
questions. It offers insights into the problems of history and
memory: the question of public, social or collective memory; the
nature of national memory in comparison to other types of memory;
the variability of memory over time and social space; alternative
memories; and, memory's techniques like commemorations, the
mechanism of creating and transmitting memory.
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