1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455099703321

Autore

Berdahl Daphne

Titolo

Where the World Ended : Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland / / Daphne Berdahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1999]

©1999

ISBN

1-283-29170-3

9786613291707

0-520-92132-1

0-585-12957-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

341.42

Soggetti

Ethnology - Germany

Social change - Germany - Kella

Electronic books.

Germany (East) Boundaries Case studies

Germany History Unification, 1990 Case studies

Kella (Germany) Case studies

Kella (Germany) Social life and customs 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Village on the Border -- 2. Publicity, Secrecy, and the Politics of Everyday Life -- 3. The Seventh Station -- 4. Consuming Differences -- 5. Borderlands -- 6. Design Women -- 7. The Dis-membered Border -- Epilogue: The Tree of Unity -- Glossary of Terms -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied the many transitions since 1990. What happens to identity and personhood, she asks, when a political and economic



system collapses overnight? How do people negotiate and manipulate a liminal condition created by the disappearance of a significant frame of reference? Berdahl concentrates especially on how these changes have affected certain "border zones" of daily life-including social organization, gender, religion, and nationality-in a place where literal, indeed concrete, borders were until recently a very powerful presence. Borders, she argues, are places of ambiguity as well as of intense lucidity; these qualities may in fact be mutually constitutive. She shows how, in a moment of headlong historical transformation, larger political, economic, and social processes are manifested locally and specifically. In the process of a transition between two German states, people have invented, and to some extent ritualized, cultural practices that both reflect and constitute profound identity transformations in a period of intense social discord. Where the World Ended combines a vivid ethnographic account of everyday life under socialist rule and after German reunification with an original investigation of the paradoxical human condition of a borderland.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910404087703321

Autore

Papadopoulos Antonios N

Titolo

Advances in Wood Composites

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

ISBN

3-03928-585-8

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (210 p.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Wood composites have shown very good performance, and substantial service lives when correctly specified for the exposure risks present. Selection of an appropriate product for the job should be accompanied by decisions about the appropriate protection, whether this is by design, by preservative treatment or by wood modification techniques.



This Special Issue, Advances in Wood Composites presents recent progress in enhancing and refining the performance and properties of wood composites by chemical and thermal modification and the application of smart nanomaterials, which have made them a particular area of interest for researchers. In addition, it reviews some important aspects in the field of wood composites, with particular focus on their materials, applications, and engineering and scientific advances, including solutions inspired biomimetrically by the structure of wood and wood composites. This Special Issue, with a collection of 13 original contributions, provides selected examples of recent Advances in Wood Composites

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794781303321

Autore

Potkay Adam <1961->

Titolo

Wordsworth's ethics [[electronic resource] /] / Adam Potkay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-4214-0758-2

Descrizione fisica

ix, 254 p

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Ethics in literature

Music and literature

Music in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Audition and attachment -- Close encounters (i) -- Close encounters (ii) -- The ethics of things -- Music vs. conscience -- Captivation and liberty in poems on music -- The moral sublime -- Independence and interdependence -- Surviving death -- The poetics of life -- Envoy : Wordsworth's afterlives.