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The Human Sausage Factory : a Study of Post-War Rumour in Tartu.
Under certain conditions, some rumours, which were established as part of folklore already long ago, may become fixed in the memory and the subconscious of several generations. This is what happened with the rumour about a human sausage factory after the Second World War. In Tartu, Estonia, this rum...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Estonian |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Under certain conditions, some rumours, which were established as part of folklore already long ago, may become fixed in the memory and the subconscious of several generations. This is what happened with the rumour about a human sausage factory after the Second World War. In Tartu, Estonia, this rumour obtained a symbolic meaning and power due to the politics of the totalitarian Soviet regime. The memories of the post-war period are still vivid in the collective mind, and the onetime rumour of sausage factories incorporates the population's tensions, pain, loss, choices, defiance and irreconci. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (185 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-172) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401209731 9401209731 |