After the Korean War: An Intimate History Contributor(s): Kwon, Heonik (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108487920 ISBN-13: 9781108487924 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $31.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - General - History | Military - Korean War |
Dewey: 951.904 |
LCCN: 2019041202 |
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.5" W x 9.1" (1 lbs) 246 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - East Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the social) in the lived reality of Korea's civil war and the Cold War more broadly. With captivating historical detail and innovative conceptual frames, Kwon's moving, creative analysis provides fresh insights into the Korean conflict, civil war and reconciliation, history and memory and critical political theory. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kwon, Heonik: - Heonik Kwon is Senior Research Fellow in Social Science and Professor of Anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Other Cold War (Cambridge, 2010), Ghosts of War in Vietnam (Cambridge, 2008) and After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (2006). |