How Icons Work: Material Culture and Post-communist Transformation in Berlin and Warsaw, 1989–2009
How Icons Work: Material Culture and Post-communist Transformation in Berlin and Warsaw, 1989–2009
How Icons Work: Material Culture and Post-communist Transformation in Berlin and Warsaw, 1989–2009
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
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2011
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This dissertation develops a notion of icon as a social phenomenon. First two chapters explain the analytic purchase of the notion. Remaining three chapters demonstrate its empirical usefulness for elucidating the ways in which contemporary collectivities understand themselves and act as communities with a particular past. Groups and nations do not...
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How Icons Work: Material Culture and Post-communist Transformation in Berlin and Warsaw, 1989–2009
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9781124803982,112480398X
