John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, specializes in political and legal anthropology. He has written widely on national identification and symbolic form in Germany and on the relation of culture to international order. His most recent work is on accountability and the use of retributive justice in preventing cycles of violence.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Theorizing Regime EndsJohn BornemanChapter 1. From Future to Past: A Duce’s TrajectoryMaria Pia Di BellaChapter 2. Gottvater, Landesvater, Familienvater: Identification and Authority in GermanyJohn BornemanChapter 3. Two Deaths of Hirohito in JapanKyung-Koo HanChapter 4. The Undead: Nicolae Ceaus¸escu and Paternalist Politics in Romanian Society and CultureDavid A. KideckelChapter 5. The Peaceful Death of Tito and the Violent End of YugoslaviaTone BringaChapter 6. Doubtful Dead Fathers and Musical Corpses: What to Do with the Dead Stalin, Lenin, and Tsar Nicholas?John S. SchoeberleinNotes on Contributors to the Death of the Father ProjectIndex

John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, specializes in political and legal anthropology. He has written widely on national identification and symbolic form in Germany and on the relation of culture to international order. His most recent work is on accountability and the use of retributive justice in preventing cycles of violence.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Theorizing Regime EndsJohn BornemanChapter 1. From Future to Past: A Duce’s TrajectoryMaria Pia Di BellaChapter 2. Gottvater, Landesvater, Familienvater: Identification and Authority in GermanyJohn BornemanChapter 3. Two Deaths of Hirohito in JapanKyung-Koo HanChapter 4. The Undead: Nicolae Ceaus¸escu and Paternalist Politics in Romanian Society and CultureDavid A. KideckelChapter 5. The Peaceful Death of Tito and the Violent End of YugoslaviaTone BringaChapter 6. Doubtful Dead Fathers and Musical Corpses: What to Do with the Dead Stalin, Lenin, and Tsar Nicholas?John S. SchoeberleinNotes on Contributors to the Death of the Father ProjectIndex