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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (XI, 356 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110697339
  • 9783110697544
  • 9783110697445
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 437 23/eng/20230120
LOC classification:
  • DJK23 .D54 2023
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 east-central European exceptionalism, Digging Politics uncovers transnational phenomena across the region that have characterized political wrangling over ancient pasts. Contributions include the biographies of famous archaeologists during the Cold War, the wrought history of organizational politics of archaeology in Romania and the Balkans, politically charged Cold War exhibitions of the Thracians, the historical re-enactment of supposed ancient Central tribes in Hungary, and the virtual archaeology of Game of Thrones in Croatia. Digging Politics charts the extraordinary story of ancient pasts in modern east-central Europe.
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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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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 east-central European exceptionalism, Digging Politics uncovers transnational phenomena across the region that have characterized political wrangling over ancient pasts. Contributions include the biographies of famous archaeologists during the Cold War, the wrought history of organizational politics of archaeology in Romania and the Balkans, politically charged Cold War exhibitions of the Thracians, the historical re-enactment of supposed ancient Central tribes in Hungary, and the virtual archaeology of Game of Thrones in Croatia. Digging Politics charts the extraordinary story of ancient pasts in modern east-central Europe.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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