Palgrave-Macmillan recently published “Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany: Heritage Fetishism and Redeeming Germanness,” by Jason James, associate professor of anthropology. The book explores the ways in which everyday citizens grapple with a difficult past through heritage. It seeks to shed new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by highlighting the dynamics of longing, fantasy, fetishism, and local performance.
Jason James Publishes Book on Eastern Germany
October 11, 2012 by
About Brynn BoyerBrynn Boyer is assistant director of media and public relations and a 2010 graduate of UMW.
