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Modes of accountability : events of closure, rites of repetition -- On money and the memory of loss -- Public apologies, dignity, and performative redress -- Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing : listening, retribution, affiliation -- The state of war crimes following the Israel-Hezbollah War -- Terror compassion, and the limits of identification : counter-transference and rites of commemoration in Lebanon -- Responsibility after military intervention : what is regime change? What is occupation? -- Does the United States want democratization in Iraq? Anthropological reflections on the export of political form -- The external ascription of defeat and collective punishment -- What do election rituals mean? Representation, sacrifice, and cynical reason -- Politics without a head : is the love parade a new form of political identification? -- Is the United States Europe's other?

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This article examines the future-oriented use of the culinary past in Poland's food discourse through a qualitative analysis of popular food media (printed magazines and TV). We analyze how interpretations of food and culinary practices from the past are connected to contemporary debates. We contend that media representations of the culinary past co-create projects of Polish modernization in which diverse voices vie for hegemony by embracing different forms of engagement with the West and by imagining the future shape of the community. We distinguish between a pragmatic and a foodie type of culinary capital and focus on how they differently and at times paradoxically frame cultural memory and tradition. We observe the dynamics of collective memory and oblivion, and assess how interpretations of specific periods in Poland's past are negotiated in the present through representations of material culture and practices revolving around food, generating not only contrasting evaluations of the past but also diverging economies of the future. Finally, we explore tradition as a set of present-day values, attitudes, and practices that are connected with the past, but respond to current concerns and visions of the future.