Death of the Father : : An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority / / ed. by John Borneman.

• MitwirkendeR: Borneman, John,; Bringa, Tone,; Di Bella, Maria Pia,; Han, Kyung-Koo,; Kideckel, David A.,; Schoeberlein, John S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Borneman, John,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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 organiza...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Theorizing Regime Ends
• Chapter 1 From Future to Past: A Duce’s Trajectory
• Chapter 2 Gottvater, Landesvater, Familienvater: Identification and Authority in Germany
• Chapter 3 Two Deaths of Hirohito in Japan
• Chapter 4 The Undead: Nicolae Ceauşescu and Paternalist Politics in Romanian Society and Culture
• Chapter 5 The Peaceful Death of Tito and the Violent End of Yugoslavia
• Chapter 6 Doubtful Dead Fathers and Musical Corpses: What to Do with the Dead Stalin, Lenin, and Tsar Nicholas?
• Notes on Contributors to the Death of the Father Project
• Index