Dresden - 9780415270366

Taylor & Francis

By weaving together scholarly research, oral history, and \""ethnographic excursions\"" or narratives of salient experiences, this book makes an important contribution to the study of social aspects of the past. > The collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of the 'Wende' - the turn of events in 1989 - is based on ethnographic and anthropological research conducted in the early 1990s. Liz Ten Dyke has developed a finely nuanced portrait of the city and its residents as they were caught up in the economic, political and social turmoil that characterized the immediate post-socialist period.By weaving together scholarly research, oral history, and \""ethnographic excursions\"" or narratives of salient experiences, this book makes an important contribution to the study of social aspects of the past. Moving beyond paradigms presently shaping the study of memory, it details the paradoxes and.