Digging Politics
The Ancient Past and Contested Present in East-Central Europe
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Beschreibung
Digging Politics explores uses of the ancient past in east-central Europe spanning the fascist, communist and post-communist period. Contributions range from East Germany to Poland to Romania to the Balkans. The volume addresses two central questions: Why then and why there. Without arguing for an east-central European exceptionalism, Digging Politics uncovers transnational phenomena across the region that have characterized political wrangling over ancient pasts. Contributions include the biographies of famous archaeologists during the Cold War, the wrought history of organizational politics of archaeology in Romania and the Balkans, politically charged Cold War exhibitions of the Thracians, the historical re-enactment of supposed ancient Central tribes in Hungary, and the virtual archaeology of Game of Thrones in Croatia. Digging Politics charts the extraordinary story of ancient pasts in modern east-central Europe.
Autor*in
James Koranyi
Themen in »Digging Politics«
Osteuropa Antike Archäologie Kommunismus Post-Kommunismus East-central Europe Ancient Pasts Political Archaeology Communism Post-Communism Nationalism