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How
did they die? Of
what significance is the symbolization of the Father and his dead body
for the form of national authority that follows the collapse of a regime?
Of what importance is the mode of death, treatment of the corpse, and
the nature of mourning in bringing closure?
An
international team of anthropologists and artists, pose these questions
as they address the end of an authority crisis that spanned most of
this century, and that crystallized around the regimes of Fascist Italy,
Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and the State Socialist systems of East
Germany, Yugoslavia, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
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