Chapter 5 Consuming Communism: Material Cultures of Nostalgia in Former East Germany

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction: Anthropology of Nostalgia – Anthropology as Nostalgia 1
6. Chapter 1 Are Anthropologists Nostalgist? 17
7. Chapter 2 Missing Socialism Again? The Malaise of Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Lithuania 35
8. Chapter 3 The Politics of Nostalgia in the Aftermath of Socialism’s Collapse: A Case for Comparative Analysis 61
9. Chapter 4 Why Post-imperial Trumps Post-socialist: Crying Back the National Past in Hungary 96
10. Chapter 5 Consuming Communism: Material Cultures of Nostalgia in Former East Germany 123
11. Chapter 6 The Key from (to) Sefarad: Nostalgia for a Lost Country 139
12. Chapter 7 Nostalgia and the Discovery of Loss: Essentializing the Turkish Cypriot Past 155
13. Chapter 8 Social and Economic Performativity of Nostalgic Narratives in Andean Barter Fairs 178
14. Chapter 9 The Withering of Left-Wing Nostalgia? 198
15. Afterword: On Anthropology’s Nostalgia – Looking Back/Seeing Ahead 213
16. Notes on Contributors 225
17. Index 229