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After the Korean War : An Intimate History / Heonik Kwon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfarePublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: 231 p. : 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781108487924
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: After the Korean War.DDC classification:
  • 951.90421 23
Summary: "Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this groundbreaking 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Window on Korea Non-fiction 951.90421 K988a (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2020 01 Available WOK001235
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this groundbreaking 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"-- Provided by publisher.