04936nam 22010335 450 991077886460332120230207222630.01-283-29170-397866132917070-520-92132-10-585-12957-610.1525/9780520921320(CKB)111004366721804(EBL)801360(OCoLC)43476577(SSID)ssj0000271206(PQKBManifestationID)11215444(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271206(PQKBWorkID)10281399(PQKB)11687463(MiAaPQ)EBC801360(DE-B1597)519976(DE-B1597)9780520921320(EXLCZ)9911100436672180420200424h19991999 fg 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrWhere the world ended re-unification and identity in the German borderland /Daphne BerdahlBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[1999]©19991 online resource (310 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-21476-5 0-520-21477-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index.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 --IndexWhen 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.EthnologyGermanyCase studiesSocial changeGermanyKellaGermany (East)BoundariesCase studiesGermanyHistoryUnification, 1990Case studiesKella (Germany)Case studiesKella (Germany)Social life and customs20th centuryacademic.berlin wall.border zones.contemporary.cultural studies.daily life.east germany.economic.economics.ethnographic.ethnography.european history.finance.german government.german politics.government.identity.international politics.liminal spaces.liminality.modern history.modern world.political.politics.scholarly.social studies.socialism.socialist.true story.wartime.west germany.world history.world politics.EthnologySocial change341.42Berdahl Daphneauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1492662DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910778864603321Where the world ended3715287UNINA