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Verdery, Katherine, 1948-

The political lives of dead bodies : reburial and postsocialist change / Katherine Verdery. - New York : Columbia University Press, c1999. - xvi, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The Harriman lectures . - Annual W. Averell Harriman Lecture. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-175) and index.

ISBN: 0231112300 (acidfree paper)

LCCN: 98045114

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Dead--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern.
Dead--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)
Human body--Symbolic aspects--Europe, Eastern.
Human body--Symbolic aspects--Russia (Federation)
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Europe, Eastern.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation)
Ancestor worship--Europe, Eastern.
Ancestor worship--Russia (Federation)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Europe, Eastern--Politics and government.
Russia (Federation)--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: GT3242 / .V47 1999