Digging Politics : : The Ancient Past and Contested Present in East-Central Europe /

Digging Politics : : The Ancient Past and Contested Present in East-Central Europe / / ed. by James Koranyi, Emily Hanscam.

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 e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Cichon, Matthias E.,
Cinpoeș, Radu,
Doppelhofer, Christoph,
Hanscam, Emily,
Harlov-Csortán, Melinda,
Iacob, Bogdan C.,
Kluger, Anne,
Koranyi, James,
Kremmler, Katrin,
Niculescu, Gheorghe Alexandru,
Ostrowski, Florian-Jan,
Rubel, Alexander,
Spiridon-Șerbu, Claudia,
HerausgeberIn:
Hanscam, Emily,
Koranyi, James,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Digging Politics: The Ancient Past and Contested Present
  • Balkan Antiquity as Decolonial Eurocentrism During the Cold War
  • Thracian Archaeology and National Identity in Communist Bulgaria: The Ideological Pattern of Museum Exhibitions
  • Imagining King’s Landing: Dubrovnik, the Diegetic Heritage of Game of Thrones, and the Imperialism of Popular Culture
  • Slavic Archaeology as “A Special Obligation”? Researching the Early Slavs in Communist Poland and East Germany
  • Allies out of Ashes? Polish Ideas for the Refounding of Medieval Western Slavic States after 1945
  • Roman Heritage in Hungary: The Case of the Fertőrákos Mithraeum on the Iron Curtain
  • ‘Eurasian Magyars’: The Making of a New Hegemonic National Prehistory in Illiberal Hungary
  • Beyond Radical Right Politics: LGBTQ+ Rights in Hungary and Romania
  • The Protochronistic Depiction of the Transylvanian Saxons in Nicolae Ceaușescu’s History Textbooks (1976–1989)
  • Dacian Blood: Autochthonous Discourse in Romania during the Interwar Period
  • Why Nationalism Survives in Romanian Archaeology and What Could Limit its Impact
  • Archaeology and the Challenge of Continuity: East-Central Europe during the Age of Migrations
  • Index

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