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Mussolini·Hitler·Hirohito·Ceausescu·Stalin·Tito·
How did they die?
Why is it important?
Of what significance is the symbolization of the Father and his dead body for
the form of national authority that follows the collapse of a regime? Of what
importance is the mode of death, treatment of the corpse, and the nature of
mourning in bringing closure?
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An international team of anthropologists and artists, pose these questions as
they address the end of an authority crisis that spanned most of this century,
and that crystallized around the regimes of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany,
Imperial Japan, and the State Socialist systems of East Germany, Yugoslavia,
Romania, and the Soviet Union.
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