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Narratives in the Making: Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present: by Anselma Gallinat, New York, Berghahn Publishers, 2016, 242 pp., 3 illus., bibliog., index 120.00/£85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-78533-798-7.

Narratives in the Making: Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present: by Anselma Gallinat, New York, Berghahn Publishers, 2016, 242 pp., 3 illus., bibliog., index 120.00/£85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-78533-798-7 The body of literature that calls itself "the anthropology of democracy" has...

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Published in:Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology Vol. 84; no. 5; pp. 928 - 931
Main Author: Ringel, Felix
Format: Book Review
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2019
Subjects:
Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City (Book)
Anthropological linguistics
Narration
Nostalgia
Political oratory
Historical literacy
Author-publisher relations
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Summary:Narratives in the Making: Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present: by Anselma Gallinat, New York, Berghahn Publishers, 2016, 242 pp., 3 illus., bibliog., index 120.00/£85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-78533-798-7 The body of literature that calls itself "the anthropology of democracy" has, I belief, not had the traction it should have given the threats that liberal democracies face worldwide. Gallinat updates and expands previous accounts of East German memory work and develops two powerful strategies to navigate her own way through this complex terrain.