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Overview"In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf Mrazek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of twentieth-century concentration camp internees and the multiple ways in which their experiences speak to the fundamental logics of modernity. Mrazek focuses on the minutiae of daily life in two camps: Theresienstadt, a Nazi ""ghetto"" for Jews near Prague, and the Dutch ""isolation camp"" Boven Digoel-which was located in a remote part of New Guinea between 1927 and 1943 and held Indonesian rebels who attempted to overthrow the colonial government. Drawing on a mix of interviews with survivors and their descendants, archival accounts, ephemera, and media representations, Mrazek shows how modern life's most mundane tasks-buying clothes, getting haircuts, playing sports-continued on in the camps, which were themselves designed, built, and managed in accordance with modernity's tenets. In this way, Mrazek demonstrates that concentration camps are not exceptional spaces; they are the locus of modernity in its most distilled form." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rudolf MrázekPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.726kg ISBN: 9781478006671ISBN 10: 1478006676 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 17 January 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I. Fashion 1. Clothes 11 2. Beauty Spots 27 3. Pink Bodies 43 4. Sport 72 Part II. Sound 5. Noise 83 6. Voice 91 7. Music 104 8. Radio 119 Part III. Light 9. Clearing 143 10. Enlightenment 169 11. Limelight 189 Part IV. City 12. Blocks 211 13. Streets 239 14. Suburbs 265 Part V. Scattering 15. Nausea 297 16. Escape 319 17. Dust, or Memory 349 Notes 379 Bibliography 451 IndexReviewsThe Complete Lives of Camp People is quite simply an extraordinary, provocative, challenging, and brilliant work. Offering an audacious theorization of modernity via modernity's twin forms of violence--colonialism and the camp--Rudolf Mrazek has written perhaps the finest book I have read this decade. --Rosalind C. Morris, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University The Complete Lives of Camp People is a stunning collage assembled from witness testimonies, administrative instructions, philosophical reflections, and poetic illuminations. By juxtaposing the stories of two 'model camps'--Boven Digoel and Theresienstadt--Rudolf Mrazek explores the sensory, material, experiential, and spatial dimensions of twentieth-century internment camps. This is the 'thickest description' of camp life yet to appear in print, providing valuable insights into a ubiquitous feature of modernity. --Iris Rachamimov, Tel Aviv University The Complete Lives of Camp People is a stunning collage assembled from witness testimonies, administrative instructions, philosophical reflections, and poetic illuminations. By juxtaposing the stories of two 'model camps'-Boven Digoel and Theresienstadt-Rudolf Mrazek explores the sensory, material, experiential, and spatial dimensions of twentieth-century internment camps. This is the 'thickest description' of camp life yet to appear in print, providing valuable insights into a ubiquitous feature of modernity. -- Iris Rachamimov, Tel Aviv University The Complete Lives of Camp People is quite simply an extraordinary, provocative, challenging, and brilliant work. Offering an audacious theorization of modernity via modernity's twin forms of violence-colonialism and the camp-Rudolf Mrazek has written perhaps the finest book I have read this decade. -- Rosalind C. Morris, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University Author InformationRudolf Mrázek is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the author of several books, including A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of its Intellectuals, also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |