03940nam 2200649Ia 450 991081868700332120200520144314.01-283-29170-397866132917070-520-92132-10-585-12957-610.1525/9780520921320(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)9911100436672180419980402d1999 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrWhere the world ended re-unification and identity in the German borderland /Daphne Berdahl1st ed.Berkeley, CA University of California Pressc19991 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 centuryEthnologySocial change341.4/2Berdahl Daphne1964-2007.1750168MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818687003321Where the world ended4184733UNINA