Background
Daphne Berdahl was born on June 14, 1964, in Freiburg, Germany, to Margaret and Robert Berdahl, a scholar of German History and well-known former chancellor of Berkeley.
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(On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany) Author: Daphne Berdahl published on (January, 2010)
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On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany (New Anthropologies of Europe)
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Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German reunification, to her insightful analyses of consumption, nostalgia, and citizenship in the early 21st century, Berdahl's writings probe the contradictions, paradoxes, and ambiguities of postsocialism as few observers have done. This volume brings together her essays, from an early study of memory at the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., to research on consumption and citizenship undertaken in Leipzig in the years before her untimely death. It serves as a superb introduction to the development of the field of postsocialist cultural studies.
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Daphne Berdahl
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Berdahl was raised in Oregon, attended Oberlin College for her undergraduate degree, and earned her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Career
She received a two-year position as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, and later joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where she worked from 1997 to 2007 as an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor of Anthropology. On October 5, 2007, Berdahl died after an eight-year struggle with breast cancer. A graduate fellowship was set up at the University of Minnesota in her honor.
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On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany (New Anthropologies of Europe)
( Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading sc...)
- (On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany) Author: Daphne Berdahl published on (January, 2010)
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On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany (New Anthropologies of Europe)
Politics
Her work on gender and consumption as well as her writing on post-communist nostalgia has been widely cited by scholars of post-socialism.
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