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This page intentionally left blank T H E P O L I T I C A L L I V E S O F D E A D B O D I E S T H E H A R R I M A N L E C T U R E S Thanks to the generosity and foresight of the W. Averell Harriman family, the annual Harriman Lectures have become an important intellectual event and celebration in the academic calendar of the Institute and Columbia University. Previous Harriman Lectures have been delivered by the noted American social scientist Barrington Moore, the Russian academician and cultural historian Dmitri Likhachev, the late British economist Alec Nove, and the late British social theorist Ernest Gellner. In the lectures were increased from one to three, and a program of publication commenced with Columbia University Press. A L R E A D Y P U B L I S H E D —Andrei Sinyavsky, The Russian Intelligentsia, T H E P O L I T I C A L L I V E S O F D E A D B O D I E S Reburial and Postsocialist Change Katherine Verdery C O L U M B I A U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S N E W Y O R K C COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS Publishers Since New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Verdery, Katherine. The political lives of dead bodies : reburial and postsocialist change / Katherine Verdery. p. cm. — (The Harriman Lectures) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–231–11230–0 . Dead—Political aspects—Europe, Eastern. . Dead—Political aspects—Russia (Federation) . Body, Human—Symbolic aspects—Europe, Eastern. . Body, Human —Symbolic aspects —Russia (Federation) . Funeral rites and ceremonies— Europe, Eastern. . Funeral rites and ceremonies—Russia (Federation) . Ancestor worship—Europe, Eastern . Ancestor worship—Russia (Federation) . Europe, Eastern—Politics and government. . Russia (Federation)—Politics and government. I. Title. II. Series: Annual W. Averell Harriman Lecture. GT.V '.—dc – Casebound editions of Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America c To the memory of my brother David Simonds Verdery untimely dead fie-i t¸a˘rîna us¸oara˘ neka mu je laka zemlja (May the earth lie lightly on him) This page intentionally left blank And what the dead had speech for, when living They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. —. . , “Little Gidding” This page intentionally left blank
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