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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borneman, John.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Fascis

Contents:

Death of the Father; Contents; Preface: Rupture, End, Death, Closure; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theorizing Regime Ends; CHAPTER 1: From Future to Past; CHAPTER 2: Gottvater, Landesvater, Familienvater; CHAPTER 3: Two Deaths of Hirohito in Japan; CHAPTER 4: The Undead; CHAPTER 5: The Peaceful Death of Tito and the Violent End of Yugoslavia; CHAPTER 6: Doubtful Dead Fathers and Musical Corpses:; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780857457158

0857457152

OCLC:

994873688